MEHEK – Aakash Odedra Company/Aditi Mangaldas Company
MEHEK
Aakash Odedra Company / Aditi Mangaldas Company
Friday 12 April 2024
Sadler’s Wells, London
Reviewed by the Pulse Dance Audience Club
The Making of MEHEK – Aditi Mangaldas
Kathak dancer and choreographer Aditi Mangaldas has established an international reputation for excellence of technique and aesthetics and for breaking new ground in the themes she has tackled, from feminine desire to violence against women.
Samsara – Aakash Odedra Company
Samsara
Aakash Odedra Company
Sadlers Wells, 18 October 2022
Reviewed by Pranav Yajnik
Photo: Nirvair Singh Rai
AO Global: The Road to Nine. Bisakha Sarker, blogpost 5: Veera ('Courage')
The exploration of the state of being ‘courage’, veera in Sanskrit, opened with renowned dance artist Aditi Mangaldas highlighting the gender bias in the popular perception of the word ‘courage’.
AO Global : The Road to Nine – blogpost 1: Surprise
The Road to Nine
I have taken the first step of a journey that promises to be super exciting, passing through nine states of being, crisscrossing time zones, sharing a ZOOM Screen with over sixty fellow travellers.
Webinar on Banyan Tree Films – Circle of Dance – The Blossom
Webinar to discuss the films in the series Banyan Tree – Circle of Dance: The Blossom.
Thursday 29 September 6.30 – 8 pm
AO Global: The Road to Nine. Bisakha Sarker, blogpost 3: Karuna
The state of being we explored in the third week was Karuna, ‘Compassion’, with two very sensitive artists, contemporary dancer Gizem Aksu and photographer Nirvair Singh Rai. Aakash introduced Nirvair as his friend and mentor.
Aakash Odedra and Hu Shenyuan In Conversation
Samsara : A major new international collaboration
This year will see the pairing of two extremely virtuosic dancer-choreographers in a new dance production that reinterprets a classical Chinese epic.
2018: Recognitions
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.