Ravi Shankar’s Sukanya explores common ground in music from east and west and draws on myth and personal experience. As it receives its première this spring, Ken Hunt tells the story behind this music, dance and drama creation.
15 March 2017
Composer David Murphy worked regularly with Ravi Shankar. He spoke to May Robertson about the intensity of their projects and how he approached his orchestration of Sukanya.
15 March 2017
Writer and musician Amit Chaudhuri talked to Ken Hunt about Ravi Shankar, comic books and telling the ancient story of Sukanya in a modern Indian tradition.
15 March 2017
Doria Tichit writes about the Bagri Foundation, who have funded the première of Sukanya.
15 March 2017
Shivaangee Agrawal, Manuela Benini, Parbati Chaudhury, Raheem Mir and Seeta Patel tell Gopa Roy about the visions that Akademi’s Choreography Commissions are helping them to realise.
15 March 2017
As we look forward to BBC Young Dancer 2017 Pulse proofreader Pamela Covey shares her response to the first series.
15 March 2017
The setting of a theatre is not the most conducive to a meditative state; its dimensions are more utilitarian than spiritual and one’s focus on the stage is shared (in the case of the Lilian Baylis Studio) with about 180 other people.
15 March 2017
The sitar concerto has had something of an emblematic status in the area of East-West ‘fusion’ music, ever since Ravi Shankar first showcased the form in his Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra of 1971.
15 March 2017
A pioneer of vast and varied talents, John Lockwood Kipling (1837‒1911) was a zealous and fervent supporter of crafts and art in India.
15 March 2017
