Kuchipudi in Focus
Isabel Putinja gives a comprehensive background of the form and the personalities most closely associated with the development of kuchipudi as we know it today.
17 June 2011
Issue-113
Swapnasundari on Vilasani Natyam
Dancer, scholar and researcher Swapnasundari took a break from her performance career to delve into the legacy of the Telegu court and temple dancers. She shares her insights with Isabel Putinja.
17 June 2011
Kali Chandrasegaram
Donald Hutera traces the journey of this multidimensional artist from a dance class in Kuala Lumpur to becoming one of the three ACE/Akademi choreographic bursary awardees.
17 June 2011
Dance of Devotion – Devdasis for a New Era
The Bhaktikalalayam dance troupe from Florida have grown up within the Hare Krishna community. They tell Jahnavi Harrison what moves them to keep up their practice.
17 June 2011
Asha – the Risk-Taking Legend
Ken Hunt catches up with Asha Bhosle, popular music’s living legend and Shujaat Khan, son of the late Vilayat Khan, in London following their concert of Naina Lagaike at the Royal Festival Hall.
17 June 2011
Kathakbox
The seventy-minute world premiere of Kathakbox at the mac, Birmingham was the result of an eighteen-month project, led by British-based kathak dancer/choreographer Sonia Sabri.
17 June 2011
Sutra – Creativity in Tradition
London audiences missed out in May as the North-West was treated to a feast of odissi, performed by Arushi Mudgal – the recipient of Milapfest’s 2010 International Touring Fellowship.
17 June 2011
Carnatic Jazz
The principle of Carnatic jazz is fairly long-established. By that, let’s agree on a fusion of the Carnatic – also Karnatic – art music tradition system of South India and jazz – predominantly, maybe exclusively jazz in its post World War II, multi-cultural manifestations.
17 June 2011
Surdas Bhajans
In some fields of music it is possible to use a superlative like ‘greatest’ without fear of charges of partiality or chamcha (sycophantic) designs.
17 June 2011
‘A Tribute to Ustad Ali Akbar Khan’
What amount of courage and focus does it take to get up on stage and perform?
17 June 2011