Reviews
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Lok Virsa: Without Borders Sonia Sabri Company
Tuesday 17 April 2012
Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall
As part of Alchemy Festival
It’s Alchemy Festival and, once again, The Clore Ballroom has been transformed from a vast empty space to a bright, colourful, even intimate, hub for South Asian culture to unleash itself on even the most unsuspecting passerby. One group who recruited a steady flow of audience members...Read More |
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Sachal Jazz Ensemble
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
As part of Alchemy Festival 2012
A packed house gathered last night for Sachal Jazz Ensemble’s first ever performance outside of their native Pakistan. It was clearly a momentous occasion for all involved. Surveying the tiers of faces in the hushed Queen Elizabeth Hall, Izzat Majeed, one of the two musi...Read More |
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Classic Cut Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company
Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House “An intriguing new production in two halves”, that’s what we were told. And intriguing it was. Classic Cut is a double-bill from acclaimed British-Asian choreographer, Shobana Jeyasingh which combines new – Dev Kahan Hai?, or for those of us n...Read More |
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Elixir Sadhana Dance Robin Howard Dance Theatre, The Place, London Sadhana Dance opened their second production Elixir following its premiere in Eastleigh, at The Place Theatre, London, to a full house of mainly dance cognoscenti. The Company, formed by Subathra Subramanyam following the disbanding of Angika (a partnership with Mayuri Boonham, which had...Read More |
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Rising Young Sitar Diva: Roopa Panesar Collaboration between SOAS Concert Series and Darbar Festival Sitar: Roopa Panesar Seats began to fill up quickly in the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre – word must have spread that Roopa Panesar and her soulful sitar would be taking to the stage. Since the age of seven, Roopa has been completely devoted to Indian classical music. Having learned mainly from the pione...Read More |
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Photo: Simon Richardson
The Avatara Project
