Geometer: ReRooted Collective
Bloomsbury Festival Holy Cross Church, London 16 October 2019 Reviewed by Magdalen Gorringe Luke Jerram’s magnificent artwork, Museum of the Moon, provided an apt set for the show entitled Geometer,…
Classic Encounters-Subhash Viman Gorania
23 October 2019 The Curve, Leicester, Reviewed by Sanjeevini Dutta Classic Encounters, a full length solo performance by Subhash Viman Gorania is at several levels a coming-of-age piece. It follows…
Courtyard Kutcheri
Courtyard Kutcheri Fairfield Halls, Croydon 18 October 2019 Reviewed by Pranav Yajnik Early-arriving audience members for Mythili Prakash’s performance of Here & Now were treated to a set of free…
Descendants
Descendants- Gauri Sharma Tripathi, Sonia Sabri, Mayuri Boonham 29 September 2019 Purcell Room, SBC London Reviewed by Shivaangee Agrawal Descendants was the striking name given to a mixed bill evening…
v4 – Guide To Being A Freelance Dancer: Part 1
The question many dance artists face is how can I earn a living from dance- what are the options? Pulse has commissioned Shivaangee Agrawal to write a series on Self-Help…
Seeta Patel- On Weight of an Iconic Score
Seeta Patel is spearheading some of the most exciting bharatanatyam developments in the UK. She spoke to Shivaangee Agrawal about her work, about fear, about education. The Rite of Spring…
Radical Classical
What stops me from perceiving my practice and my form in a radically different way, from trying things that may raise eyebrows? Is it even possible to be both a…
Seeta Patel’s The Rite of Spring at Dance City. 05 May 2019. Choreography and Direction: Seeta Patel, Music Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring – Rafael Fruhbecl de Burgos, Vocalist of Interlude: Roopa Mahadevan, Music Advisor: Julien Kottukapally, Costume Design and Creation: Jason and Anshu Arora, Lighting Design: Warren Letton, Dancers: Ash Mukherjee, Indu Panday, Kamala Devam, Moritz Zavan, Sarah Gasser, Sooraj Subramaniam, Rehearsal Director: Nadhi Thekkek/Emma Lister, Production Manager: Bethany Gupwell, Project Manager: Hayley Youell, Producer: Sarah Shead, Spin Arts. Photo © Foteini Christofilopoulou.
Seeta Patel’s The Rite of Spring
18 May 2019, The Place, London The Pulse Dance Audience review The first point to make about this version is that there was no sense of a disjunction between…
To Be Beautiful
In an age where body positivity is flourishing and the societal pressures (for women, especially) to look a certain way are increasingly acknowledged and refuted, dance still seems to be…
Forty Years On-In Conversation with Tara Rajkumar OAM
17th October 2019 The Bhavan, London By Shivaangee Agrawal “There was no Bhavan, no Akademi. There was no widespread practice of Indian classical dance. There was some intellectual understanding of…