Akram Khan’s Jungle Book reimagined
Images: Screenshots from Company Trailer Akram Khan’s Jungle Book Re-Imagined Akram Khan Company Sadler’s Wells, London, 6 April 2023 Reviewed by Sanjeevini Dutta and Gopa Roy A tale for our times,…
Sway of the Verses at Tate Lates
Pritpal Ajimal, aka Sway of the Verses is a designer and artist by day and a DJ with a difference by night. He is discovering the joy of sharing his…
Vidhya Subramanian – Bharatanatyam Solo
Vidhya Subramanian's Bharatanatyam Solo The Bhavan, London 5 May 2023 Reviewed by Sanjeevini Dutta California-based dancer Vidhya Subramanian is no stranger to the UK. She has taught at Dance India…
Abhinaya – Beyond Binaries Part One
Kumudha Chandrasekaran, dancer and educator discusses the subject of ‘abhinaya’, the expressional and narrative part of dance with three well-known performers. The question before them: how to convey the shades…
Fatherhood- Altered Skin
Patrick Studio, Birmingham 27 October 2022 Reviewed by Katie Ryan Altered Skin’s latest work centres on the stories of three fathers, separated by space and time yet connected by the…
AO Global: The Road to Nine. Biskha Sarker, blogpost 6: Bhayanaka, ‘Fear’.
The state of being in Fear, Bhayanaka, followed Veera or ‘Courage’. The first part was a lecture on rhythm and the second part was the practical session on understanding fear…
Solidarity from the Kitchen.
It is said that January in the UK is the time when many are at their lowest ebb, the nights are long, dark and cold and spring seems far away.…
Meghana Krishnan- Bharatanatyam Solo
Saraswatham Foundation 23 May 2021 Reviewed by Sooraj Subramaniam Images: : Iyappan Arumugham, a4 Medias In the Indian solo performing art forms, to portray and make swift transitions between all manner…
Dancing in the Kitchen- a disco with serious intentions
Creating a community of common interest while being immersed in something that gives pure pleasure, has been our experience of developing the Dancing in the Kitchen night with DJ Ritu.…
End of an unusual year
On the last day of 2020, the editor Sanjeevini Dutta looks back on the year. 2020 is a year like no other we have known. We have read in history…