The Sonia Sabri Dance Company presented ‘Parallels’ at Croydon’s Clocktower continuing its ‘quest to infuse … kathak with contemporary relevance’ with a mixed bill of solos (including choreographies by Shobana Jeyasingh and Lisa Torun), where ‘… classical and cutting edge modern day interpretations of kathak [existed] side by side’.
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The dance performance by Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company at the Laban Centre for Contemporary dance made a kind of history since it was the first time that Laban had presented on its stage a performance of dance other than western contemporary.
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The opening sequence featured a dancer holding a pose, whose limbs were being manipulated by fellow dancers.
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At the QEH on London’s South Bank, the South Asian Dance Faculty was celebrating the tenth anniversary of bharatanatyam and kathak becoming part of ISTD.
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ugalbandis between Hindustani and Carnatic traditions have been around for decades, but many end up not so much a shared space between two traditions but a musical ping-pong between two great artists.
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For the best part of November 2008, an enormous array of India’s varied arts and cultures took over the Dutch capital’s auditoriums and public spaces in the Amsterdam India Festival. It was, I was reliably informed, the largest India festival ever in Europe.
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