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Dancing for a cause: 11-yr-old Sagarika Venkat

Sydney Srinivas -
  It was a unique experience watching the young Sagarika Venkat on stage. The 11-year-old Year 6 student presented her first full-fledged solo Bharatanatyam performance...

REVIEW: Come From Away (Sydney’s Capitol Theatre)

Manan Luthra -
  Stories arising from the September 11 terrorist attacks are not hard to find. Tales of personal loss, public grief, and diplomatic declarations of war...

‘Marked for prominence’

Sydney Srinivas -
  After watching Bharatanatyam dancer Ankitha Shashidhar present her arangetram (debut), one couldn’t help but ponder over the serendipity of her name. It is Sanskrit...

Arangetram, a classical inheritance

Swati Alok Tiwari -
  In an interesting moment in Dhanya Dinakar and Pratiksha Chuttar’s recent arangetram (debut performance), the duo moved gleefully to embrace but stopped short, creating...

Best live theatre shows to catch in Sydney and Melbourne

Manan Luthra -
  In the wake of the pandemic, Australia has become a hotbed for the global entertainment industry. With Europe and North America still battling to...

Raghav Handa: TWO’s company

Rajni Anand Luthra -
  As the narrative grows around us about the pathology of a deeply polarised contemporary world, one of the techniques suggested to bridge divides is...

A review of Arjun Raina’s Straight From the Horse’s Heart

Bageshri Savyasachi -
"Please switch off your cameras, your phones and put yourself on speaker view, not gallery view," announced Arjun Raina, sutradhaar (narrator) of his newest...

Dancing with the mind

Hamsa Venkat -
Three stalwarts of classical Indian dance let the imagination run wild as they find a place for their art in a contemporary world

Sarhadein: Bonds of humanity vs borders of blood

Preeti Jabbal -
Acts of kindness that cross religious divides was the focus of Natyadarpan Indian Theatre Academy’s latest presentation Sarhadein, presented recently at Chandler Theatre. The...

Samskriti’s ‘Abhijnana Shakuntalam’ leaves audience spellbound

Indian Link -
“If you want the bloom of youth and fruit of later years, If you want what enchants, fulfils, and nourishes, If you want heaven...

Susheela Raman sways the audience at Oz Asia Festival 2019

Shampa Bhattacharya Bruweleit -
The splendour of the traditional Indonesian gamelan orchestra hits my eyes as I enter the Space Theatre inside Adelaide’s Festival Centre, venue of the...

Patra: struggles of female artists of South Asian Diaspora, in Melbourne

Preeti Jabbal -
Reinstating their difference whilst reshaping their sense of belonging five accomplished female artists from the South Asian Diaspora got together to tell their stories...
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