Category : COLUMNISTS

Life in 2020 was all about meeting and learning through the virtual medium. Schools were shut and online classes became the new normal. Children started to study the online way and studies took a new avatar, one we had never imagined it to be. Like educational institutions, dance institutes and music schools too shifted to […]Read More

There are many styles of nritya (dances) in India and various types of festivals also happen based on the dance styles. One of the well-respected festivals is Rabindra Nritya, the dance idiom created and introduced by Rabindranath Tagore that has stood the test of time. The fact that even 100 years later, Rabindra Nritya has […]Read More

I promise my story today will totally mesmerise you and would want you to look out for this incredibly talented Billy Elliot of India. Kamal Singh also known as Noddy Singh, has become the first Indian to get admission in the prestigious English National Ballet School in London. Kamal took internet and Bollywood by storm […]Read More

The relationship and the bond that a guru and shishya share is eternal. The teaching, the training and the words spoken by the guru leaves a lifelong impression on a shishya. It is said that ‘when one finds a true guru on can conquer the world’ same happened to Kathak exponent Asavari Pawar when she […]Read More

Recently Kolkatta saw a magnificent show ‘Tranz” which actually put the audience in a trance. The show was organised to celebrate 29 years of one of the city’s leading dance company and school of contemporary dance, Sapphire Creations. The Artistic Director and Choreographer Sudarshan Chakravorty is the man behind Sapphire and has been successfully doing […]Read More

Kathak is indeed one of the most popular classical dance forms of our country, with three main Gharanas ((Lucknow, Jaipur and Banaras), each with its own beautiful and unique style and class. But, the common thread is these is the kavittav or Kavitta or Poetries, which are performed on taal – gestures and expressions are […]Read More