Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company 2 October 2025 Mayflower Studios, Southampton Ranjini Nair, dance scholar and kuchipudi practitioner, reflects on her first experience of watching the work of Shobana Jeyasingh live. …
Clay, cues and cardboard houses: A day in the double life of a Performer-director By Vidya Thirunarayan Artistic Director, Thirunarayan Productions www.vidyathirunarayan.com Photos: Robert Golden HOLY DIRT premiered…
Brooklyn Baithak (Part 1): Community & Culture in the Heart of NYC By Meghana Boojala, written for Line & Verse Brooklyn Baithak has grown to be a popular South Asian…
Clay, cues and cardboard houses: A day in the double life of a Performer-director By Vidya Thirunarayan Artistic Director, Thirunarayan Productions www.vidyathirunarayan.com Photos: Robert Golden HOLY DIRT premiered at the Ensemble…
Richmond Festival of Ideas Little Green, Richmond 22 June 2025 Report by Anita Chanda It was a lovely surprise discovering an entrancing and soulful dance performance on a sunny Sunday…
In India, dance is not merely performed; it is lived. It seeps into the body through ritual, mythology, familial memory, and collective inheritance. As an odissi dancer rooted in India's…
Over the past few months, one of my favourite thinking dancers/dancing thinkers, Dr Apoorva Jayaraman has been writing what she describes as a spontaneous series on Instagram. She calls these…
Sonia Mehta is a singer and social activist whose twin passions have been driving her through a career spanning three decades. Sonia was born in Liverpool into a second-generation Punjabi…
The Place, London 16 April 2024 Reviewed by Donald Hutera Since founding his eponymous company in Wolverhampton two decades ago, the dancer, choreographer and artistic director Jaivant Patel has slowly,…
‘When dancing, I feel connected to the Supreme power-the stage is my mandir’ ‘I am a Christian, living in a Muslim country, performing a Hindu dance’. This neatly sums up…
