An Artist’s View – Creativity
Malavika Sarukkai writes about the creative process explored in the Natya Darshan Dance Symposium in Chennai.
23 June 2015
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A Critic’s Reflection – Creativity
India’s foremost dance critic and writer Leela Venkataraman has no preconceived notions of what creativity is. She shares her thoughts.
23 June 2015
Samyoga
Although this internationally-acclaimed company is well-known to US audiences and has graced both the Edinburgh Fringe and international festivals in recent years, this was, inexplicably, their first London performance.
23 June 2015
Igniting the Imagination – Creativity
Donald Hutera investigates the sources of their creativity with Shobana Jeyasingh, Balbir Singh, Bisakha Sarker, Seeta Patel and Sonia Sabri.
23 June 2015
Project 12 – For the Love of It
Seetal Kaur Gahir looks into what impels this group of young musicians.
23 June 2015
Making the Heart Beat Faster – BBC Young Dancer 2015
Audiences were enthusiastic. What was the experience like for some of those involved in the competition? Kenneth Tharp, Vidya Patel, Sujata Banerjee and Urja Desai talked to Sanjeevini Dutta and Gopa Roy.
23 June 2015
Bayadère – The Ninth Life
This was a work of depth and substance, educative and visually stunning. It was political. It was a commentary on Petipa’s 1877 ballet La Bayadère, a subversion of it and a positioning of contemporary dance in the present moment.
23 June 2015
Forgot Your Password?
The dancing was good and clear and the stagecraft was impressive. The multiple identities on stage created a disturbing, sometimes eerie effect, as when the live dancer stood before – or was it behind, or within? – her digitally-projected self.
23 June 2015
Tagore: New Voices and Decreasing Infinity
Co-presented by Kadam/Pulse and the Tagore Centre, this varied, ambitious and yet intimate evening of work was in large part inspired by the work – and in particular the poetry – of the incredibly influential Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore.
23 June 2015
The King of Ghosts
For me, the Queen Elizabeth Hall has always resembled the interior of a vast spaceship. And tonight the audience was transported not to outer space but to a kind of parallel universe where shadowy ghosts from the forests of Bengal dance to the rhythm of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
23 June 2015