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Narthaki Monthly Newsletter

Jun 2023
ARTICLES

International World Dance Day Online Festival
MOVE 2023 - 3rd Edition by The KLMovement
- Michelle Jueney

Deafening silence is louder than jingling salangais
- Uma Palam Pulendran

Making of Odissi: The infighting and the unity
- Kedar Mishra

Stop, rewind, reset: The Kalakshetra time clock
- Avanti Meduri

How dance artists are taking inspiration from what they eat
- Sophie Bress
Novena is a joint project between choreographer Jay Carlon, composer Micaela Tobin and a somewhat unconventional third collaborator: rice.

Can there be something such as an honest critic?
- Prathyush Parasuraman
The critic is a persona largely missing from India's classical music and dance scene.

Dance Spiritualism: The tale of Odissi
- Kedar Mishra
Like other classical dance forms in India, Odissi has historical roots in the religious rituals of the temples.

How this Demon Dance banishes illnesses in Sri Lanka's remote jungles
- Zinara Rathnayake
The Kankariya dance all started with a legendary demon queen named Kuweni.

We can't go back: How the pandemic created space to reflect on unsustainable or harmful dance industry norms
- Karen Hildebrand
Right now the dance community is teetering at a crucial edge. In an urgency to return to business as usual, there is a danger that we'll do just that.



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