Plastic Drastic Fantastic
Plastic Drastic Fantastic Akademi and Polka Theatre 8 April 2022 Polka Theatre, Wimbledon Three years ago Suba Subramaniam, Artistic Director at Akademi, began exploring cultural relationships with plastics. The concept…
Flexible Bodies, British South Asian Dancers in an age of Neo-Liberalism
Flexible Bodies, British South Asian Dancers in an age of Neo-Liberalism. Anusha Kedhar Oxford University Press, 2020. Reviewed by Magdalen Gorringe As dancers, busy with class and riyaaz or with…
Provocation: Bharatanatyam is not best suited to telling contemporary stories.
We are putting this question to a series of bharatanatyam artists. Shane Shambhu Njaan ippol Malayalathil ezhathiyaal ningalku vallatthum manasallago? Do you understand what I’ve written? Anything? It’s Malayalam (albeit…
Unkindest Cut
Unkindest Cut Sadhana Dance IF Oxford Science & Ideas Festival Bonn Square, Oxford 17 October 2018 Reviewed by Gopa Roy Unkindest Cut is an intense and moving experience…
Dancing for Change II: Arunima Kumar and Subathra Subramaniam
Can dance effect social change? Donald Hutera interviewed four dancers whose work engages with difficult social and political issues. We began with the responses from Aakash Odedra and Amina Khayyam…