Donald Hutera talks to four leading photographers ‒ Avinash Pasricha, Chris Nash, Simon Richardson and Vipul Sangoi ‒ about the fascination that dance holds for them and how they approach a shoot. From the immediacy of live performance to taking studio shots six months ahead of a show, the photographers’ experiences are as varied as their personal journeys.
24 December 2015
The Odissi Ensemble featuring four British-based dancers brought into sharp relief the beauty, depth and drama of the odissi genre. Pulse takes a closer look at the dancers and the factors that brought them together.
24 December 2015
Odissi is the dance form associated with the state of Odisha, formerly Orissa, on the east coast of India.
24 December 2015
Achuthan Sripathmanathan shares with Seetal Gahir his musical journey, going to Chennai to learn violin from the legendary Lalgudi G. Jayaraman, and completing his medical studies.
24 December 2015
The buzz at the Southbank Centre, with close to sold-out performances throughout the programme, demonstrates the growing momentum of the Darbar Festival. On the final evening, the organisers scheduled a leap into the world of classical Indian dance; a decision that I am sure they do not regret.
24 December 2015
Dance professionals adept at the classical form odissi tend to receive less attention in the UK than those who practise either bharatanatyam or kathak.
24 December 2015
Pelva Naik’s afternoon recital was a reminder of how important the Darbar Festival is now. Its track record for bringing over new acts or acts new to the UK is exemplary.
24 December 2015
The sitarist Mita Nag is, as we say, her father’s daughter. It was Ira Landgarten’s New York-based label Raga Records that first planted her father Manilal Nag’s music in my head in the 1990s.
24 December 2015
You know what it’s like when you’re reading a really great book… you can peek to see how many pages remain. When you’re in a really great Hindustani recital, there’s no knowing how many ‘pages’ are left.
24 December 2015
Renaissance iconography and traditional Indian dance converge when a crimson sari of intense contrast folds and contours around the dancing figure of Bengali artist Bisakha Sarker MBE.
24 December 2015
