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Opera gets a new dark twist (20 November 11:17) |
| Ipsitaa Panigrahi
Operas have always had a sense of grandeur surrounding them. Huge tapestries, lavish settings, symphony like orchestra with the choir master, sopranos, violins et al are w... |
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Indian dancing couple finds Vietnamese support (17 November 09:49) |
| Amrita Jayakumar
Amazing" is the one word they would use to describe their experience. Both Dr Reesha Dhulap and her dance partner Diago Pereira, who represented India for the first ti... |
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Injury an integral part of a dancers life (17 November 09:45) |
| Sandip Soparrkar
Dancers also have one complaint all the time — that of injuries they have had and how they are trying to heal all of them. Most often we hear that its taking long to heal... |
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Diverse expressions of a wasted ideology (16 November 02:10) |
| Hassan M. Kamal
Having grown up in a city where marching red flags were a common sight, and where long before a child learnt who Lenin is, he sees him as graffiti on walls, I’ve always be... |
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Sublime insight into artistic lingua franca (16 November 02:02) |
| Uma Nair
At the heart of Indian art, lies the fragility of human experience, the understanding of myriad hues and the essence of artistic response in the light of the diversity of intensity... |
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Classic Hamlet gets modern Indian avatar (13 November 08:25) |
| By Ipsitaa Panigrahi
Shakespeare’s wo-rks have always fascinated every generation and continue to do so. His works have been tried and tested by different groups in unique styles and subs... |
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Speaking the language of colours (09 November 10:25) |
| Pooja Sharma
The strokes come like speech. —Van Gogh
Shubhra Chatu-rvedi’s work has a language of its own. A language that is both intriguing and relaxing. Her work is soaked in moods ... |
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Act 31 Scene 1Venue Prithvi Theatre (06 November 02:30) |
| Lakshmi Govindrajan
There are two strains of the Indian theatrical tradition, which in my opinion, are indispensable for imparting the right kind of acting discipline to any serious group o... |
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Dealing with pre-performance jitters (03 November 11:40) |
| Sandip Soparrkar
I have asked most of the international celebrities whom I taught dance, how they manage to fight "backstage jitters" just before a performance. Madonna, Shakira, ... |
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Not just how quickly you rise to fame its about fun as well (30 October 11:10) |
| Sandip Soparrkar
When I was just a pup in the dancing scene, I thought as soon as I lapped up a few more moves and took a few more classes, I would be a pretty good dancer. I tried to go to... |
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Contemporarily speaking (23 October 12:07) |
| Ipsitaa Panigrahi
He swirls, he twirls and he makes you feel as absorbed as he is in his trance like movements. The lyrical movements that flow take you to another level of spirituality. Me... |
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Lets pray for Indias future in dance (23 October 12:02) |
| Sandip Soparrkar
Dance is a medium of expression, a physical manifestation of what the heart and mind hold. This expression is incomplete if we are inhibited, have something that holds us b... |
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The picture that says it all (22 October 06:25) |
| Jyoti Verma
This year, India arrived on the world advertising cine stage. The minute-long dramatic saga of a cut-out character in Chennai, who "began as an action hero, later became a ... |
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Sarukkai makes Devi relevant today (16 October 06:43) |
| Amrita Jayakumar
It was considered a huge risk, but eventually paid off. Last week, the Mumbai audience was brought to its feet by "Week of Dance", held at the Tata Theatre, NCPA.... |
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Dance is in itself a global village (16 October 06:33) |
| Sandip Soparrkar
Dance, it is said, is a universal language — one that can be understood by all. Dance knows no boundaries and has no gender or colour preferences. Much like coffee drinke... |
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Wonders of Varanasis loom (13 October 04:41) |
| Rashme Sehgal
White-haired Gani Baba is the only weaver in the world who can weave in the unique gethua broacading style. It’s a mechanism unique to Varanasi which follows the unusual hea... |
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Rhythm of the terracotta (13 October 04:40) |
| Nawaid Anjum
Delhi-based ceramic artiste Dipalee Daroz finds the sound of music in the soil. Her solo show titled "Sounding Clay", which is on at Art Alive Gallery in New Delhi as... |
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Over the moon (13 October 04:37) |
| Uma Nair
After having taught Sylvia Plath’s Mirror to my tenth graders in school, I was reading Ted Hughes poems. Suddenly at the end of the analogy came his poem The Moon and Little Frei... |
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Tendulkar hero finds place in censor play (09 October 04:05) |
| Ipsitaa Paingrahi
Sex, morality and censorship. Don’t these three words still make us cringe and raise our eyebrows in the conventional mode of society that we exist? The latest offering ... |
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Let it roll baby! (06 October 02:22) |
| By Sandip Soparrkar
A Dancer and dance parties go hand in hand. An average dance lover will probably end up at one if not for two dance parties a week. If you are a regular party goer you w... |
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Indian fits in a Spanish caravan (06 October 02:19) |
| By Ipsitaa Panigrahi
Life has been a roller-coaster ride for this multicultural and multi-faceted danseuse. A Tamilian born in Holland and studied in Spain and India, she is truly a global ... |
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Cruelty that doesnt hurt (02 October 12:40) |
| Pramita Bose
An unusual form of theatre is the Theatre of the Oppressed which is a method, established and elaborated by Brazilian director Augusto Boal. Also in the loop is yet another uno... |
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When the going gets tough (01 October 06:08) |
| Jharna Sur
The message is there for everyone to read. The economy is slowly coming out of the recession but companies are still jittery about their bottom lines. Most are debating whether t... |
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Gallery doubles up as museum (29 September 05:19) |
| Hassan M. Kamal
Artist Bose Krishnamachari had a long-lived dream: To build a museum which besides showcasing some of the greatest marvels of the art world would provide an interactive spac... |
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Sensual strokes An ode to Hindi (29 September 05:18) |
| Nawaid Anjum
Delhi-based artist Manjit Singh has dedicated himself to Hindi literature. After his solo show based on Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist Jaishanker Prasad's Kamayani, he has ... |
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Passion makes it all worth it (22 September 02:16) |
| Sandip Soparrkar
Whenever I meet my old friends from my school and college days they welcome me with open arms and always congratulate me for my achievements. The glow on their faces and th... |
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A resurgent sense of panache and pondering (21 September 04:14) |
| Uma Nair
CONTINENT of Circe-1, the title grabbed from Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s book set one thinking about the scope of a young photographer who has to step out of the shadow of his father. O... |
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A healthy bandwagon (17 September 03:14) |
| Jyoti Verma
It all started with Dettol, Saffola and Pepsodent shouting from the TV sets of how healthy they could be for us. If we tripped in the lawn, we only had to use Dettol; if it was ... |
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Art gallery sheds light on water woes (14 September 02:27) |
| Uma Nair
It is estimated that over 10 million years are spent by women and female children carrying water from distant sources every year." (Johannesburg Summit 2002 cited in WaterAid/... |
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Break free from the clutter (10 September 01:55) |
| Jharna Sur
The times they are a changing with most brands furiously, infiltrating our lives with messages of every kind. Although it’s difficult to make an estimate it’s fair to say tha... |
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I believe I can fly (08 September 03:08) |
| Sandip Soparrkar
In dance what attracts more attention than the dance steps are the jumps the dancer takes or in the dance language the "leaps". Leaps are one of the greatest thri... |
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Exhibiting todays art with an elusive sensibility (07 September 03:51) |
| Uma Nair
A. Balasubramaniam's "In Between", at Talwar Art Gallery in Delhi, is a show that suggests some exciting new approaches to reinventing and recombining Post Minimalism's d... |
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The guardianship of brands (03 September 01:27) |
| Kishore Chakraborti
There was a time when we used to belong to a place, a province or a state. We were known as Ellahabadi, Hyderabadi, Bhopali etc. We used to be introduced as "belong... |
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Let the music guide you to dance floor (31 August 11:40) |
| By Sandip Soparrkar
Dance, seems unfinished if it is not to music, especially in social couple dancing, response to music is must. Leaders may be able to lead many complicated moves, but if... |
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No spoke in this wheel (31 August 04:04) |
| Pramita Bose
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. —Michelangelo
An American MNC professional during the day and an artiste by night, talented young potter Rahul... |
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The idea of a timeless graphic naiveté (31 August 04:03) |
| Uma Nair
At an estimate of $40,000-$60,000, Tyeb Mehta's Untitled sculpture of a bull's head is indeed an intriguing piece of sculpture up for the Christie's Modern and Contemporary Art Sal... |
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Doc clicks in search of God (24 August 04:03) |
| Vatsala Shrivastava
The desire to attain perfection extends beyond his professional life, and dives deep into Navin Sakhuja’s another passion — photography.
His photography is a docume... |
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A satiric twist to Bapus philosophy (24 August 04:02) |
| Uma Nair
A visit to the Art Summit 2009 proved that we are living in the society of the spectacle. The most iconic installation was none other than Subodh Gupta’s Gandhi’s Three Monkeys... |
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Breathing life into the Parsi theatre (21 August 02:05) |
| Amrita Jayakumar and Ipsitaa Panigrahi
Augest.21 : On the eve of Parsi New Year, theatre veteran Sam Kerawala brought another rib tickling tale of Parsi life to the stage, Shapurji Na Tapel... |
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Reanimating the elephant god (17 August 10:23) |
| By Uma Nair
The three-lobed stele carved with the standing Ganesha, his four hands holding the specific attributes, always wearing a dhoti decorated with tassels, pot-bellied, his face with... |
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Art Summit back with more hopes and connections (17 August 10:22) |
| By Pramita Bose
The second edition of India Art Summit gears up to set the mood for the Indian art market, this season. Following the landmark success lodged last year, the stakeholders hav... |
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Celebrating a confluence of genres (16 August 12:39) |
| Hassan M. Kamal
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia will lead Mumbaikars to a unique ensemble of different genres of music - pure classical, folk, jazz and the new age world music - at a new show c... |
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Memory Truth and falsification (14 August 01:22) |
| Ipsitaa Panigrahi
How much of human memory is fact-based and how much simply a version of what we want to remember? Company theatre’s production Blue Mug reveals an interesting perspectiv... |
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Trial and no error (13 August 02:25) |
| Jyoti Verma
Augest.13 : Have you ever wondered what the motivation for you to sample a newly launched product would be? Something like the yummy new mocha launched by McDonald’s? What if ... |
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India€™s own dancing queens (11 August 02:57) |
| Neil Pate
They may be far-off from the razzle-dazzle of a professionally managed Broadway show, but the three-hour, "Dancing Queens" drag show staged by a group of transgender per... |
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Indias own dancing queens (11 August 02:57) |
| Neil Pate
They may be far-off from the razzle-dazzle of a professionally managed Broadway show, but the three-hour, "Dancing Queens" drag show staged by a group of transgender per... |
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Put on your dancing shoes (11 August 02:56) |
| Sandip Soparrkar
In the fairytale of Cinderella, we saw her meet her Prince Charming all because of her pretty dancing shoes so you can very well imagine how important a role shoes play in ... |
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Mixing culinary marvels with paan stains and goats (10 August 12:11) |
| By Uma Nair
The celebration of Taj Mahal’s Varq completing its first year brought in a small quaint show by Sharan Apparao of Apparao Galleries. One doesn’t know her idea of the mix and... |
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Snapshots of freedom returns from Eden (10 August 12:11) |
| By Shruti Dua
As the story goes, after eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were banished from the garden. However, making a return to the Garden of Eden is Prabir... |
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Bangla bands branch out but stay true (09 August 01:53) |
| Pramita Bose
Tracing the success curve of Bangla bands, it will be fair to say that they have flourished over the ages with innumerable albums to their credit and overseas stage shows on th... |
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