How does a chat with a grandparent become material for movement?
Finding a deeper meaning in the spoken word is the essence of Akademi’s Oral History dance project, entering its second phase at the end of January 2021.
IndianRaga is the brainchild of US-based Sriram Emani, who was fired by the vision of bridging the classical arts with popular forms to engage the next generation.
Waqt ki qaid mein zindagi hai magar
Chand ghadiyan yehi hain jo aazad hain
Life is trapped in time’s prison but
These are the few moments that are free
(from Fayyaz Hashmi’s ‘Aaj Jaane Ki Zid Na Karo’)
When it comes to arts in lockdown, all artists have pushed themselves beyond their comfort zone into the precarious world of technology.
Jahnavi Harrison talked to dancer, teacher and award-winning choreographer Nina Rajarani as she prepared to present her new duet with Y.
A Suitable Boy, the BBC One adaptation of Vikram Seth’s epic novel of post-Independence India, stepped into the Sunday evening slot on our TV screens in late July.
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival would have opened this week but for the pandemic.
This article by Arieb Azhar was first published in Pulse #137, Summer 2017.
We re-publish it here on the anniversary of Pakistan's independence, 14th August 1947.
Heritage is arguably one of mankind‘s greatest assets. But how should dance heritage inform practice in the twenty-first century? Naseem Khan looks at the interplay between continuity and change.
“In spite of being a mother, sister, daughter,
My caste is still ‘Woman’” [1]