Sevens – Srishti
Sevens Srishti: Nina Rajarani Dance Creations April 2, 2022 The Place, London Photos: Bheem Adavikolanu Numbers – or, in the case of the choreographer Nina Rajarani, one number in…
Elemental Goddess
Elemental Goddess Bhavan, London 2 October 2022 Reviewed by Annapoorna Kuppuswamy On the 153rd birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, a vociferous advocate of simple sustainable lifestyle, a conceptually…
Solo Bharatanatyam – Pallavi Anand
Solo Bharatanatyam –Pallavi Anand 1 July 2022 Bhavan, London The house lights dim, the audience comes to a hush, a spotlight trains on the orchestra of four musicians. The meditative…
Guru samarpanam – Shalini Shivashankar
25 September 2022 Bhavan, London Reviewed by Annapoorna Kuppuswamy On a day in late September that felt like a summer afternoon, the South Asian dance world came together post-pandemic for a…
Plastic Drastic Fantastic
Plastic Drastic Fantastic Akademi and Polka Theatre 8 April 2022 Polka Theatre, Wimbledon Three years ago Suba Subramaniam, Artistic Director at Akademi, began exploring cultural relationships with plastics. The concept…
Divya Ravi: Solo Bharatanatyam Recital
Divya Ravi Solo Bharatanatyam Recital The Bhavan, London Saturday 19 March 2022 Photos: Pranita Choudhry Divya’s performance inspires many emotions, but the ones that remain are those of love…
Divya Kasturi’s To Varnam With Love’ – another point of view
Image: Screenshot taken from trailer. Melodious singing by Divya heralded To Varnam With Love (30 September, 2021, The Place, London) as a spotlight highlighted a stepped podium on…
A response to Divya Kasturi’s ‘To Varnam with Love’
To Varnam With Love (30 September, 2021, The Place, London) was an evening of multimedia dance performance, exploring projection, props, lighting, music, spoken word, singing and a variety of different…
For the dogs, the foxes, and the cats.
ni nari pnaikkum dhn Indha yeri kuLam kda sonthamadi 'This lake and pond belong to even the dogs, the foxes, and the cats.' Can we bharatanatyam dancers take lessons from…
Making Inroads
Images: Screenshots taken from the works. Links below. The end of the 2021 academic year at dance conservatoires has given opportunities to two South Asian dancer/choreographers to make new works…