Confluence
Confluence was the piece Akram Khan and Nitin Sawhney premiered as the Festival finale.
11 December 2009
Issue-107
World Strings and Rare Ragas
It’s encouraging to see the London Sitar Ensemble present work at venues like the Southbank Centre.
11 December 2009
Aarambh – a new beginning
Grandly titled the National Choir for Indian Music in Britain, it may, more accurately, be described as a welcome, indeed commendable, experiment in taking Indian classical vocal into a choral setting.
11 December 2009
Remembering Nusrat
A largely South Asian audience packed out the Royal Festival Hall to witness Rahat Fateh Ali Khan pay tribute to his uncle, the legendary Qawalli singer Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
11 December 2009
Daredevas
Now in its fourth year, Daredevas, Akademi’s showcase for young dance talent, took place at London’s Purcell Room in front of a packed and enthusiastic audience.
11 December 2009
Trespass/Play of Percentages
What happens when you see contemporary dance collide with traditional North Indian kathak dance? Balbir Singh’s Dance Company was set up to explore the very answer to that question.
11 December 2009
Journey to the West
Journey to the West was a work-in-progress featuring the collaborative energies of India’s contemporary dance-diva Anita Ratnam and New York City’s story-telling maverick Dianne Wolkstein, along with director Richard Armstrong and choreographer Sat Hon.
11 December 2009
Sattriya Dance
The sattriya dance form was accepted by the Sangeet National Academy, India’s cultural arts body as the seventh ‘classical’ dance, and Menaka PP Bora, trained by her guru-mother is committed to promoting and popularising it.
11 December 2009
Breaking Boundaries
Cartwheeling bodies criss-cross the stage diagonally, bodies balance in unison on narrow benches in Astad Deboo’s Breaking Boundaries with Salaam Baalak Trust youth.
11 December 2009
Anoushka Shankar
Anoushka Shankar presented no ordinary sitar recital. No alap, jod-jalla or gat in teental. The evening, divided in two parts, tackled innovation head-on.
11 December 2009