The dance performance by Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company at the Laban Centre for Contemporary dance made a kind of history since it was the first time that Laban had presented on its stage a performance of dance other than western contemporary.
18 March 2009
The opening sequence featured a dancer holding a pose, whose limbs were being manipulated by fellow dancers.
18 March 2009
At the QEH on London’s South Bank, the South Asian Dance Faculty was celebrating the tenth anniversary of bharatanatyam and kathak becoming part of ISTD.
18 March 2009
ugalbandis between Hindustani and Carnatic traditions have been around for decades, but many end up not so much a shared space between two traditions but a musical ping-pong between two great artists.
18 March 2009
For the best part of November 2008, an enormous array of India’s varied arts and cultures took over the Dutch capital’s auditoriums and public spaces in the Amsterdam India Festival. It was, I was reliably informed, the largest India festival ever in Europe.
18 March 2009
Kunal Dutta talks to Farooq Chaudhry, the producer of the Akram Khan Company about his turbulent career and critically acclaimed, ground-breaking dance productions
12 December 2008
Donald Hutera talks to Jiva Parthipan, a trans-disciplinary artist, about taking strides into difficult areas of dance and installation art.
12 December 2008
Resham Lall ponders the dilemma that young people face in making a choice to pursue an artistic career.
12 December 2008
An in-depth look at how age-old Sufi faith and customs are translating themselves into performances of south Asian music and dance.
11 December 2008
Rumi (1207-1273) believed in spiritual connection with the divine source. The steady tap-tap of a metal worker’s hammer in the bazaar inspired in him that repetitive sound and movement of whirling as a path towards a spiritual union.
11 December 2008
