Secular Themes in Bharatanatyam: Ideas for an Inclusive Future – Part I
Sangam, the earliest known literature from South India, provides an abundance of secular themes for the bharatanatyam dancer.
Pleasure and Pain – Dancing in the Outdoors
Bharatanatyam dancer and Peak District National Park Ranger Chamu Kuppuswamy tells us of how she is combining her twin passions.
Photos: Credit: Simon Richardson | Location: Michael's Folly, Hertford
Dance and Society: Beauty and the myth of the ‘real’ bharatanatyam
Image: Simon Richardson
Dance and Society
In the third of our articles in this series, Sammitha Sreevathsa raises the question of who defines our ideas of beauty.
Dance and Society: Who is a Hereditary Dancer? – and why I can never answer this question.
Dance and Society
We continue our series specially commissioned with the dance student in mind.
From Below the Ivory Tower
Dance and Society
Pulse has commissioned this new series with the dance student in mind.
‘…truly critical deliberations on culture in India… are virtually non-existent.’
Hebridean Treasure
the Space @ Surgeons’ Hall
Edinburgh Fringe
15 August 2019
Reviewed by Sanjeevini Dutta
Dance Dialogues – Dancer Profiles
Sadlers Wells and Kadam Dance place contemporary and classical South Asian dance on an equal footing in the Dance Dialogues project running currently at Hymers College in Hull.