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…
BBC Young Dancer – South Asian Dance Category Finals
Friday 19 April 2019 It’s eight o’clock and I’m in front of the TV with a dosa dinner to catch the first of the BBC Young Dancer category finals –…
Darbar Festival 2018: An Evening of Bharatanatyam
Darbar Festival 2018 An Evening of Bharatanatyam 24 November 2018 Sadler’s Wells Reviewed by Shivaangee Agrawal Defying Time and Space : Renjith and Neha For its second year, the dance…
Not Appropriation…
Alain de Botton in The Art of Travel suggests that we are attracted to foreign cultures not because of their exotic content but because they express some aspect of one’s…
The Loom of Life- Malavika Sarukkai’s Thari
Malavika Sarukkai’s new show, Thari, will be the opening dance production at the refurbished Queen Elizabeth Hall in London's Southbank Centre. The artist talks to Editor Sanjeevini Dutta about the creative process. Malavika Sarukkai’s new production…
Thari – The Loom
Malavika Sarukkai Tuesday 24 April 2018 Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London Reviewed by Donald Hutera The links between dance choreography and weaving, particularly as the latter relates to the…