From a kathak teacher – teaching strategies
Nikita Thakrar, kathak teacher and performer shares her extensive experience of training children and adults. She has made a full time career teaching dance and a range of disciplines related…
Vidya Patel- Finding my Voice
Ahead of the premiere of Don’t Mind Me, one of the four dance works by the Sadler’s Wells Young Associates, Vidya Patel talks to Sanjeevini Dutta about her dance journey. Image credit:…
Insta Stars- Eshani Sathe
The second profile in the Series takes us to Mumbai and to an ‘Insta discovery’ that led Sanjeevini Dutta to locate and converse with the kathak artist Eshani Sathe. It…
Kathak Monologues
Kathak Monologues Amina Khayyam Dance Company The Rich Mix, London Saturday 19 March 2022 Performance photos: Simon Richardson An evening of four dance pieces written and choreographed by kathak artist…
Kattam Katti
Kattam Katti Pagrav Dance Company Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler’s Wells, London Reviewed by Donald Hutera on November 18, 2021 As with many live performances conceived well before but subsequently delayed…
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…
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. …
Uday – Shyam Dattani
Uday – The Awakening A solo debut by Shyam Dattani 16 September 2019 Arts Depot, Finchley Photos: Credit Simon Richardson The two most common approaches to dancers beginning to perform…
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 –…