Shivoham, Bhavan Centre, London, 16 July 2017 – an appreciation, by Lakshmii Senathirajah. Bharatanatyam dancer Akshay Prakash – brought to a wider audience as a category finalist on BBC Young Dancer 2017 –…
#Je Suis, Aakash Odedra Company, Birmingham Hippodrome, 15 February 2018 – Reviewed by Magdalen Gorringe Aakash Odedra’s latest work, #Je Suis (which received the 2017 Amnesty International Freedom of Expression…
A profile of Kali Chandrasegaram by Donald Hutera If words are clues to understanding how a person thinks and functions in the world, there are a few key phrases that pop…
Borderline Royal Court Theatre 31st May 2018 Written by Hanif Kureishi | Directed by Kully Thiarai Reviewed by Ayndrilla Singharay Part of ‘Retracing Our Footsteps’, three nights of play readings…
Magdalen Gorringe, bharatanatyam dancer and PhD scholar attended as many concerts at Darbar as she could manage with her commute from Birmingham. For the first time this year, the longstanding…
Dancer Kali Chandrasegaram found his teacher Shankar Kandasamy’s performance at the Bhavan Centre (7 May 2018) brought memories flooding back. Shankar Kandasamy was one of my dance teachers, around twenty…
Dancer Sooraj Subramaniam is unsettled by the popular and potent Childish Gambino video, 'This is America'. How does one explain the urgency in movement? What is it that makes us…
A moment of suspension, the calm before the storm...Sooraj gives a poetic description of the gathering and focussing of energy before its release in a movement we will all recognise.…
Ianthe Mellors is a dancer, choreographer and teacher from Bedford, England, who has won awards for her work, suffered injury, but come back dancing. Ianthe began ballet classes at the age…
Back To The Blues, 15 March 2018, St John’s Smith Square, London – Reviewed by Ken Hunt Quite what to expect of Back To The Blues was…
