It has been a bumper year for the South Asian dance community. We congratulate those recognised in the Honours bestowed by the Queen; and reflect on the achievements of a number of others.

Dancer Sooraj Subramaniam is unsettled by the popular and potent Childish Gambino video, 'This is America'.

A moment of suspension, the calm before the storm...Sooraj gives a poetic description of the gathering and focussing of energy before its release in a movement we will all recognise.

Dancer Sooraj Subramaniam bemoans how 'adult life' and social media distract him from the total immersion of a good book.

In her first Editor's Blog, Sanjeevini Dutta welcomes you to our new website

'I am an identity crisis that's been happening across three continents.' – Sooraj Subramaniam,

Magdalen Gorringe, bharatanatyam dancer and PhD scholar attended as many concerts at Darbar as she could manage with her commute from Birmingham.