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…
SEVENS: Interview with Nina Rajarani
SEVENS, a new triple bill by Srishti, begins its nationwide tour this month. ‘Through bharatanatyam and kathak, and originally composed live music, SEVENS will explore the sacred, and sometimes sinful, significance of…
Aprājita, The Resilient Artist
Aprājita, The Resilient Artist, was a three-day virtual dance festival curated by Kripa Iyer and Neelambaree Prasad. Childhood dance friends in Mumbai who eventually found themselves as neighbours in London,…
On Unlearning
As a dancer, I grew up following the vision of the Temple of Fine Arts, the institution where I trained. Their mission, ‘Art, just for the love of it’ can…