The Poetic Saree
The Poetic Saree Jaya Mehta 25 June 2019 Nehru Centre, London This was a delicate, unpretentious, yet deeply felt performance. Jaya Mehta is an exponent…
Akram Khan- On Curating Darbar Festival
Akram Khan talks to Parbati Chaudhury, kathak artist, about curating the dance programme of the Darbar Festival. Q. Off the back of last year’s Darbar, what vision did you set out with…
Not Appropriation…
Alain de Botton in The Art of Travel suggests that we are attracted to foreign cultures not because of their exotic content but because they express some aspect of one’s…
In Conversation with Sushmita Pati
Odissi dancer Sushmita Pati is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Kala The Arts, the organisation she set up and directs based in Basingstoke, Hampshire. To mark the occasion, she has mounted a modest…
Dakshina
Elena Catalano and Kamala Devam Presented by Akademi Friday 20 April 2018 Rich Mix, London Reviewed by Donald Hutera Solo performances reveal a dancer’s style and skills, the manifold ways…