Do you know Padma?
Do you know Padma? Nah, not Padma Lakshmi, but Pad.ma the online digital video archive? To quote from their website Pad.ma – short for Public Access Digital Media Archive – […]
Category Archives: contemporary
Dancers interviews
It is always a refreshing delight to see the main stream media doing regular shows based on art, inclusive of music, dance, and visual arts. We know that NDTV Hindu […]
Soorya (Singapore) presents MAYA RAVAN on May 8th, 2011
Soorya (Singapore) presents Padmashri Shobana’s MAYA RAVAN – A Dance – Musical –Theatre in English Padmashri Shobana, with her team of 14 artistes presents the spellbinding dance-musical- theatre extravaganza ‘Maya […]
NYU Nasha’s 7th Annual Benefit Dance Showcase, Jan 29,2011
” NASHA, is an all-female South Asian fusion troupe based in New York University. NASHA combines a variety of Eastern and Western dance styles, including but not limited to bharatanatyam, kathak, […]
“Valid presence of contemporary Indian??? “We dont call your work contemporary. You do!!”
Featured below are excerpts from KSL’s response to Ms. Anita Ratnam’s recent foreword on Narthaki. I am attaching the original document for those of you who dont shy away from anything more […]
Style Intolerance and Personal Preference
I have seen a growing obsession and intolerance to styles among dancers, students of dance and rasika. While stylistic differences are becoming less apparent due to dancers learning from more […]
Cluttered Desk!!!
Well…. I have been quiet not because there has been nothing to say… it is a case of too much to say and too little time. I am just waiting to […]
Rasa Unmasked by Sutra Dance Theatre
“Rasa Unmasked- Wisdom of India, Invoked and Savoured” “Rasa Unmasked is a new dance work touring Australia and South-East Asia in March and April 2009. It is a sensuous, vibrant […]
Silly laments- redundant and repetitive!
Here are a few of my own ponderings on certain recent and not so recent observations with inputs from fellow rasikas. Isnt it a blessing to be surrounded by a few kindred souls? […]
Ajith Bhaskaran Dass’s Suvarana’s Dance Company sparkling production Ujjwala
Ajith Bhaskaran Dass and his group of dancers from the Suvarna Dance Company presented the “Ujjwala- Awakening of the Inner Flame” at Dewan Tuanku Abdul Rahman Auditorium in Malaysia Tourist […]
