Neilson Studio at Sydney Dance Company, Sydney.20 September 2024. This year celebrates 10 years of DirtyFeet’s proudly Out of the Studio program, with 2024 bringing audiences a triple bill program, once again presenting, and supporting, emerging artists. All artists featured shared new diverse works that displayed each of their unique voices and backgrounds. Performances were […]

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Book: Ram Gopal: Interweaving Histories of Indian DanceAuthor: Ann R. David, Bloomsbury Publishing, February 2024. Ann R. David’s Ram Gopal: Interweaving Histories of Indian Dance is a fascinating, very detailed, extensively researched book that details the life and times of famous Indian dancer Ram Gopal (1912-2003) and how he influenced and changed the view of […]

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Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney.7 March 2024. Raghav Handa is an acclaimed Indian Australian choreographer, whose latest work The Assembly, presented by and created at Campbelltown Arts Centre, had a short, punchy season earlier this month.  Handa is a diverse artist whose body of work spans performance and choreography that is heavily inspired by his Indian […]

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Dancehouse, Melbourne.5 October 2023. “Why can’t the art speak for itself?” she asks, in a tone more accusative than enquiring. The short answer here is that it does; and, if left alone to do so, Touch would be an elegant and beautiful evocation of a simple and powerful idea. Alas, it is not quite so. […]

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For two shows only, 22-23 September, FORM Dance Projects, together with Riverside Theatres, will present Urban Kali, a contemporary multidisciplinary performance that integrates dance, installation and film. The creator and performer of Urban Kali, Rakini Devi, who was born in Kolkata and is based in Sydney, is known for her work that challenges notions of […]

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Parramatta Riverside Theatre, Sydney May 1, 2015 Mesmerizing, powerful and hypnotic, this is a bravura solo by Raghav Handa. Translated, Tukre means “pieces” in Hindi. Inspired by the contents of his luggage on arrival in Australia, Handa has created a memory map of his family and cultural heritage through music and dance. Contemporary dance is blended […]

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Schooled in the classical Indian styles of Kathak and Bharata Natyam, UK contemporary superstar Aakash Odedra is coming down to Oz to give us a taste of Rising. By Paul Ransom. English born Indian dancer Aakash Odedra is one of the new stars of British dance. His highly acclaimed solo work Rising will be premiered […]

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