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Tara Rajkumar: A life devoted to dance

Chitra Sudarshan -
  It couldn’t have been a more fitting felicitation for Melbourne dancer and dance teacher Tara Rajkumar OAM as she marked 40 years in the...

IPAC: The timeless rhythms of India’s classical arts

Chitra Sudarshan -
  The Indian Performing Arts Convention (IPAC) returned to Melbourne this year (from 18 – 26 May) for a celebration of Carnatic music and Bharatanatyam.  It is an annual...

Listen to Sydney theatremakers Dinsha Palkhivala and Meena Manathy Kumar

Sagar Mehrotra -
Indian Link Radio’s SAGAR MEHROTRA in conversation with Sydney theatremakers DINSHA PALKHIVALA and MEENA MAHANTY KUMAR, ahead of the opening of their production The...

Actor Vaishnavi Suryaprakash: Starting conversations

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  VAISHNAVI SURYAPRAKASH is a Sydney-based actor, dramaturge, dancer and performance maker. She is currently starring in Belvoir St Theatre’s performance of Nayika: A Dancing...

Silver hair. Golden years. Vivid colours.

Anu Shivaram -
  The phrase Ke Dil Abhi Bhara Nahin, is a fragment of an ever-popular song from the Hindi film Hum Dono (1961). The recent Sydney...

Why we need a new kind of Nayika (heroine)

Manan Luthra -
  Belvoir St Theatre's successful presentations of solo work (Every Brilliant Thing, Blue, Lose to Win) and South Asian storytelling (Counting and Cracking, The Jungle and the Sea)...

Christopher Gurusamy: Ananda, dance of joy

Sydney Srinivas -
  The ultimate purpose of any art is Ananda, or joy. Dance can bring it in abundant measure when the subject matter, composition, music, and...

How dance forms the light of Sashi Bala’s life

Sydney Srinivas -
  In a wonderful highlight at dancer and dancer teacher Sashi Bala’s recent production for her Natyadharshan School of Indian Dance, the Sun God materialised...

Rajendra Gangani shines as a beacon of modern kathak

Sydney Srinivas -
  When Kathak exponent Pandit Rajendra Gangani used his dance skills to produce a representation of the sea, it brought the house down. At his recent...

Kavitha Sathiakumar: A doctor-dancer’s delightful debut

Sydney Srinivas -
  We owe a lot to our parents; our very existence depends on them. This is true not just at the family level, but in...

Dancer Nikitha Sesha: A Bharatanatyam tribute to Shiva

Sydney Srinivas -
  Some twenty years ago, a dance teacher visited her friend who had just given birth to a daughter. She looked at the baby and...

Purandara Dasa Aradhane: A Silver Jubilee in Sydney

Sydney Srinivas -
  Sri Purandara Dasa (1484 – 1564) is rightly called the Pitamaha of Carnatic music and is revered wherever that music is sung. He not...
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