Team L&M After hits like Mai Ni Meriye, Vaseegara (Edit), Bombay Dreams with KSHMR, their remix of Alan Walker’s Faded, and Mirza, Mumbai’s electronic music duo, Lost Stories – run by music composers-cum-performers Prayag Mehta and Rishab Joshi – have launched an extended EP, titled, Marigold Soundsystem. Touted to be the next blockbuster, this EP […]Read More
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Team L&M Jjust Music, India’s leading music label, led by Jackky Bhagnani, has released a new song for this wedding season called Le Jaana, sung by pop singer Lekka. The upbeat and catchy dance number features Lekka and is Directed & Choreographed by Mudassar Khan and composed by Lijo George and DJ Chetas. The lyrics […]Read More
Last week was sad for the dance community as they mourned the death of renowned Bharatanatyam dancer and guru, writer and research scholar Lakshmi Vishwanathan. She was 78, she had chest congestion and had been on medication, she complained of breathlessness in the morning and passed away suddenly, according to her sister and Carnatic vocalist […]Read More
We have had many dance critics who have given their opinions or even their final word on a dance show, dance presentation, manch pravesh or a performance of an artist. It is said that a dance critics words can make or break a career of a dancer. So the position is not an easy one […]Read More
Today I am going to tell you about a dance drama that is being staged in India and abroad for over 70 years and the legacy of this is still going on. I recently experienced the puppetry style dance ballet Ramayan and was totally blown away. I had heard of this legendary production which has […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha She got the dance in her genes –both her parents, father Guru Chandi Singh and mother Serojini Devi, were well-known Manipur dancers. Even her grandparents – both maternal and paternal – were performers. Growing up amid such illustrious artistes, it was natural that Molina got swayed towards dance. “Belonging to a family […]Read More
Some dance for money, some dance for fame and then there are some are like Hong Sunmi who dance for the love of the art and dedicate their entire life to live their passion on and off the dance floor. A Korean dancer-choreographer, Sunmi is one of the most renowned and recognised faces in the […]Read More
This interview is very special to me, as I had a wonderful conversation with award winning Manipuri artist Prof Yaikhom Hemanta Kumar from Santiniketan. He is a teacher, a Pung player, a dancer, a choreographer, a writer of Manipuri dance style. He is currently working as a professor at the Sangit Bhavan Visva Bharti University, […]Read More
Recently dance lovers in Europe experienced a breathtaking production called Samsara by two dynamic artists Aakash Odedra from UK and Hu Shenyuan from China. Samsara, is inspired by the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, and traces the steps we take, both forward and backward, in search of our Higher Self. Drawing on thinking […]Read More
Shovana Narayan’s ‘Kathak Lok’ documents 19 Kathak villages of India
She is an artist who has won our hearts for decades now, be it through her dance, her lectures, her philanthropically work or her writing. Padma Shri Shovana Narayan is one dancing legend whose work is totally unmatched. Her new offering to the world of dance is her latest book Kathak Lok’ We all have […]Read More