Technology for dance or Dance for Technology?
- Navina Jafa
Online classes, performances, workshops, discussions, interactions and
promotional videos and films, and an emerging economy is gaining ground.
Over this one year, many who had reservations negotiated and explored
the advantage of the small screen.
What does it mean to be a healthy dancer?
- Rachel Fine
While most dancers work with me to achieve and maintain a healthy
lifestyle, what is healthy for one dancer might not be the same for
another.
Examining the real-life temple dancers who inspired La Bayadère
- Sarah McKenna Barry
At the heart of Marius Petipa's 1877 ballet La Bayadère is the tragic
heroine Nikiya, an Indian temple dancer, or bayadère, whose extreme
vulnerability renders her death all the more devastating.
When all roads lead to Chidambaram
- Alarmel Valli
How 40 years ago, the Natyanjali Festival offered the dancer an epiphanic, transforming moment.
Provocation: "The technical standards of dance achieved in the UK do not match those of India"
- Shivaangee Agrawal
Many will roll their eyes at this subject heading. Too often the
Bharatanatyam work that comes out of the UK is examined with regards to
India, sometimes to validate its authenticity, sometimes to claim its
superior innovation and sometimes to lament the future of dance.
After the coronavirus crisis, will culture ever be the same again?
- Radhika Seth
With many museums, galleries and theatres shuttered worldwide,
institutions are migrating online and asking for donations. But, when
the dust settles, how will they navigate the post-pandemic world?
