This was a term coined in the 1980s and much in vogue. It was meant to describe those who had interest in cultural activities, viz. organisers, sponsors, patrons or performers. I even had a column going by the same title, in a popular Delhi city magazine called First City, run by a debonair Bharat Kapoor. […]Read More
Team L&M Bangalore showed how to dance. It mounted the single-largest gathering on World Dance Day anywhere in India, with over a hundred dancers. It had done this for seven years before Covid times too organised by ace cultural personality, author and critic Ashish Khokar. After two years of very cautious activity and none indoors, […]Read More
Team L&M April 29 is UN designated International Day for Dance. Why it chose a lesser-known French ballet master Jean John Nouverre shows euro-centricism of these agencies, as if rest of the world and its dance cultures don’t matter! India has biggest dance culture: nine main forms, over 100 folk , tribal, ritual forms, add […]Read More
Ashish Khokar A for amiable. C for camaraderie. Ashwani Chopra was a jovial, happy, helpful, happening photographer who served Delhi’s art field, selflessly. Pay him, don’t pay him but he continued to smile. He always had a good word for most. Came to halls to take photos of dancers and musicians unobtrusively. Others do drama, […]Read More
Team L&M Habitat World concludes the two month- long virtual dance film festival based on Ashish Mohan Khokar Dance Collection@IGNCA with a socking “Sholay” of Indian dance, Mishran: Choreography Today. It features top choreographers, whose work in last 50 years have made the genre what it is: riveting and reinvigorating. The 20 minute film traces […]Read More
Bala in Ashish Mohan Khokar Collection@IGNCA, Oct 20-26 Team L&M Habitat World next shows the sixth archival film in the ongoing virtual series, on the legendary Bharatanatyam dancer Balasaraswati (May13, 1918 – February 9, 1984). She hailed from the most qualified lineage of Veena Dhannamal, a prominent devadasi family of hereditary artistes. Her guru Kandappa […]Read More
Team L&M Mohan Khokar Dance Collection presents Rukmini Devi as 5th episode, in ongoing virtual dance series by Habitat World. She institutionalised Bharatanatyam by creating an institution in 1936 called Kalakshetra, where Mohan Khokar was the first male student from North India, in1945. He reached Madras (now Chennai) from undivided Punjab by changing five trains […]Read More
Team L&M HABITAT WORLD opens October virtual events with Tracing Dance, a most unusual compilation on Indian dance history and heritage of India without a single moving dance image! Yes, can one imagine a dance film without actual dance? Dance is an art of motion but this film has static photos. With 500 photos, Master […]Read More
Team L&M HABITAT WORLD with Mohan Khokar Dance Collection@IGNCA, continues to offer quality virtual dance films under the creative baton of Prof Ashish Mohan Khokar. The PIONEERS of Indian Dance (part 1 – 1901s to 1940s) features Russian, American, British artistes like Anna Pavlova, Ted Shawn, Ragini Devi, Louise Lightfoot who came to India, got […]Read More
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