DESH
DESH derives from a Bengali word with a few translation possibilities and semantic associations. For their 2011 dance project musician-composer Jocelyn Pook and Akram Khan settled on homeland as their preferred translation.
14 March 2013
Month: March 2013
SAMYO – 10th Anniversary Bouquets and Brickbats
Sanjeevini Dutta assesses the achievements of the South Asian Music Youth Orchestra during the ten years since its foundation.
14 March 2013
Akram Khan – Creativity from Chaos
The Olympics choreographer and winner of award for Best Male Dancer shares with Donald Hutera the challenges of devising choreography for actors and of finding dance within the dancer.
14 March 2013
The Instrument and the Musician – Kamalesh Maitra and the Tabla Tarang
Ken Hunt traces the route taken by Maitra and the tabla tarang from East Bengal to Berlin via Calcutta and North America.
14 March 2013
Epic Women Conference
The EPIC WOMEN CONFERENCE, curated by Anita Ratnam and hosted by Kartik Fine Arts, cleared a space for thought and reflection in the dense jungle of performance activities of the Chennai December Season.
14 March 2013
Attakkalari India Biennial 2013
Dubbed ‘South Asia’s largest contemporary dance festival’, the 2013 edition of the Attakkalari India Biennial was the sixth to be held since its modest beginning in 2000.
14 March 2013
‘Mum … what’s my gam?’
Journeys carry baggage, as do identities. What is to be said of journeys made by foreparents passing on conflicting identities as an inheritance? Porkpie Dance Theatre’s director Anaish Parmar looks to his family history book for a soul-searching answer.
14 March 2013