Akram Khan’s Until The Lions
Until the Lions Akram Khan Company The Roundhouse, 14 January 2016 Reviewed by Pranav Yajnik This review was first published in Pulse 132, Spring 2016. UNTIL THE LIONS reminded…
Altered Skin – Floating Myths
Floating Myths Online project by Altered Skin Reviewed by the Pulse Dance Audience Club Note: The images are all screenshots from the works. We didn’t know, when…
Garden of the World
Talks, performances and workshops on Zoom 14 July-18 August 2020 To mark the Centenary of the founding of Welwyn Garden City, Kadam Dance and Welwyn Hatfield Interfaith Group announce…
Manch UK Platform – Impressions that linger
During the COVID-19 lock-down days, spirits were lifted as the South Asian dance sector connected virtually on the Manch UK Facebook platform. Sanjeevini Dutta recalls some of the revelations that…
Pakistan’s Music Industry – A Historical Perspective
This article by Arieb Azhar was first published in Pulse #137, Summer 2017. We re-publish it here on the anniversary of Pakistan's independence, 14th August 1947. Repression, resistance, Coke Studios…
A Classical Exploration: Mahadev
Shivaangee Agrawal reports on Mahadev: the Journey of Shiva, Presented by Ashwini Kalsekar, 8th January 2020, Watermans Theatre, Brentford Images: Vipul Sangoi “Ashwini refused to look beyond the classical…
Aakash Odedra and Hu Shenyuan In Conversation
Samsara : A major new international collaboration This year will see the pairing of two extremely virtuosic dancer-choreographers in a new dance production that reinterprets a classical Chinese epic. Hu Shenyuan and Aakash Odedra première Samsara in…
Committing to the Classical: A Reflection on Akram Khan Company’s Classical Intensive
Image credit: Simon Richardson For one week, worlds merged. The otherwise occasional journey to Sadlers Wells became a daily commute, musicians I follow on instagram were in the studio…
Mythili Prakash- In Conversation
Ahead of the world premiere of Here and Now, at the prestigious Dance Umbrella season, Mythili Prakash shares the ideas and motivations behind the new work with Shivaangee Agrawal. Here…
Nrithya Upahaar Festival
12th October 2019 at Rich Mix 21st October 2019 at Waterman’s Arts Centre Reviewed by Meenakshi Ravi The fifth edition of Nrithya Upahaar, curated by Upahaar School of Dance, featured…