Dance and Society: Beauty and the myth of the ‘real’ bharatanatyam
Image: Simon Richardson Dance and Society In the third of our articles in this series, Sammitha Sreevathsa raises the question of who defines our ideas of beauty. …
Dance and Society: Who is a Hereditary Dancer? – and why I can never answer this question.
Dance and Society We continue our series specially commissioned with the dance student in mind. I MUST HAVE BEEN around ten years old when I wrote the following words…
From Below the Ivory Tower
Dance and Society Pulse has commissioned this new series with the dance student in mind. ‘…truly critical deliberations on culture in India… are virtually non-existent.’ (Davesh Soneji, interviewed by Sammita…
Shree Savani at Sadler’s Wells ‘Sampled’
BBC Young Dancer finalist Shree Savani talked to Pulse ahead of Sampled, the annual celebration of diverse dance at Sadler's Wells When you went into BBCYD did you think you had…
Chinnadevi – from dancer to Queen’ – A first-person perspective of a new production touring in London
Chinnadevi is new bharatanatyam dance piece created for performance in a London temple: ahead of the performance of Chinnadevi on 30 November at the London Sri Murugan Temple, Chamu Kuppuswamy fills…
Hebridean Treasure
the Space @ Surgeons’ Hall Edinburgh Fringe 15 August 2019 Reviewed by Sanjeevini Dutta Summoning up the ‘cathedrals of sky, sea and land’ in the restricted space of a black…
Provocation: “The Technical Standards of Dance Achieved in the UK Do Not Match Those of India”
Many will roll their eyes at this subject heading. Too often the bharatanatyam work that comes out of the UK is examined with regards to India, sometimes to validate its…
What does it mean to practise?
Same Same... But Different Birmingham Hippodrome 1 March 2019 Sonia Sabri Company Reviewed by Magdalen Gorringe and Kezia Broadhead What does it mean to practise? What does it mean to…
Dance Dialogues – Dancer Profiles
Sadlers Wells and Kadam Dance place contemporary and classical South Asian dance on an equal footing in the Dance Dialogues project running currently at Hymers College in Hull. Three bharatanatyam-trained artists…
Dance Dialogues
Seeta Patel with NYDC and Kadam Dance place contemporary and classical South Asian dance on an equal footing in the Dance Dialogues project running currently at Hymers College in Hull. Three bharatanatyam-trained…