Sukanya – The Opera
Myth, music and dance meet in Ravi Shankar’s operatic love story’ ran the Southbank Centre’s May Listings brochure. The London performance of Sukanya – The Opera was the fourth of four stagings.
23 June 2017
Month: June 2017
The Changing Face of Classical Dance in India
Leela Venkataraman brings wisdom and insights born from a lifetime of watching dance.
23 June 2017
A Dipstick of Classical Dance in India Today
We hear from a range of voices: Debanjali Biswas, Aditi Mangaldas, Arshiya Sethi, Urmimala Sarkar Munsi and Suhani Singh.
23 June 2017
The Changing Contexts of Dance in India – Kathak Kendra then and now
Sushmita Ghosh, former director of Kathak Kendra, looks at changing approaches in training and sensibility.
23 June 2017
Attakkalari – Some Reflections
Ian Abbott was at the Attakkalari India Biennial 2017 in Bangalore. Is it the ‘coming of age of contemporary dance in India’?
23 June 2017
Pakistan’s Music Industry – An Historical Perspective
Arieb Azhar recounts the vicissitudes undergone by music in post-Independence Pakistan.
23 June 2017
Beyond the Frame and Gods and Mortals
The Odissi Ensemble opened Luton Hat Factory’s Beyond the Frame Sunday afternoon performance series with an improvisatory exploration of the spaces of the venue’s café, moving between the packed tables to make their stage the broad window sills.
23 June 2017
Queen Size
Nishit Saran’s article ‘Why My Bedroom Habits Are Your Business’ is the trigger for the creation of this insightful, thought-provoking, gutsy and confrontational contemporary dance choreography by Mandeep Raikhy in response to Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalises homosexuality in India.
23 June 2017
Conditions of Carriage
It is a game played by an invisible hand with one team of ten players on a square, red-carpeted floor with a broad, raised rim on all four sides, like a trampoline without the elastic.
23 June 2017