Apoorva Jayaraman
The first winner of the new Nritya Ratna award (‘The Jewel of Dance’) talks to Sanjeevini Dutta about the place of dance in her life.
13 September 2013
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Fleeting Moments
Chaturangan Dance, Bisakha Sarker and Akademi provide inspiration and joy through dance for older people and those living with dementia.
13 September 2013
Engaging Audiences
Sanjeevini Dutta speaks of the inspiration behind the soon-to-launched Pulse Dance Club.
13 September 2013
She Ra
After an enthusiastic response to her solo work The Spirit of Frida at the Epic Women Conference in December 2012, Dutch dancer-choreographer Kalpana Raghuraman was back in Chennai to present a new work, She Ra, commissioned by Ramli Ibrahim of Malaysian-based Sutra Dance Theatre.
13 September 2013
Manickam Yogeswaran
Manickam Yogeswaran is probably the most-heard South Indian vocalist on the planet ever.
13 September 2013
Call of Bangalore
Call of Bangalore begins with an agile-minded, musically unafraid opening gambit. With its title slyly alluding to her birthplace, this studio album not only shows off violinist Jyotsna Srikanth’s roots but also her command of melodicism, rhythmicality and pace.
13 September 2013
Shobana Jeyasingh – Choreographic ‘New Worlds’
In the second of a three-part series charting her work, Jeyasingh talks to Sanjoy Roy about some of the landmarks in her artistic journey and about motivation and imagination in the transition from dancer to choreographer.
13 September 2013
DESH
DESH derives from a Bengali word with a few translation possibilities and semantic associations. For their 2011 dance project musician-composer Jocelyn Pook and Akram Khan settled on homeland as their preferred translation.
14 March 2013
SAMYO – 10th Anniversary Bouquets and Brickbats
Sanjeevini Dutta assesses the achievements of the South Asian Music Youth Orchestra during the ten years since its foundation.
14 March 2013
Akram Khan – Creativity from Chaos
The Olympics choreographer and winner of award for Best Male Dancer shares with Donald Hutera the challenges of devising choreography for actors and of finding dance within the dancer.
14 March 2013