ROOH: Within Her
Venue MK, Milton Keynes 26 October 2024 Reviewed by Donald Hutera The title of Urja Desai Thakore's latest work for Pagrav Dance Company (soon to mark the 20th anniversary of…
SEVENS and Kattam Katti tour India
Image: Kattam Katti (above) SEVENS (below) from Instagram company publicity As the performance season in the UK directs us towards pantos and Christmas carols, South Asian dancers have been looking…
Webinar on Banyan Tree Films – Circle of Dance – The Blossom
Webinar to discuss the films in the series Banyan Tree – Circle of Dance: The Blossom. Thursday 29 September 6.30 – 8 pm Join a panel from the dance world to…
Kattam Katti
Kattam Katti Pagrav Dance Company Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler’s Wells, London Reviewed by Donald Hutera on November 18, 2021 As with many live performances conceived well before but subsequently delayed…
Uday – Shyam Dattani
Uday – The Awakening A solo debut by Shyam Dattani 16 September 2019 Arts Depot, Finchley Photos: Credit Simon Richardson The two most common approaches to dancers beginning to perform…
Reflections on Shakti
Part of Samarpan Mahotsav, A Festival of Indian Classical Dance, presented by Jaivant Patel Dance and Arena Theatre Friday 14 June Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton It is increasingly argued that…
Does the guru-shishya model of dance teaching hold out the best prospect of creating a performer?
'We have found that it is only up to a level that you can teach students as a group. Each one’s experience, imagination and capacity is different. This can be…