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Suresh Desai’s Review
The Voice of Expression
Times of India, January 5th, 2010
Performance Date: December 29th, 2009 at Darpana, Ahmedabad.
Taste and clarity of expression within parameters of high aesthetic standards set Dakshina from Washington DC apart as a dance company exploring communication through choreographed movement, powerfully highlighted with dominantly expressive silence and complementing sparse creative music. Its gifted [...]
Guest Yasmin Nair
This article is the first in a series looking at systemic, structural problems in the arts community. Nair explores the very real problems of undervaluing artists and their labor, privatization of the arts, and the structural problem of shifting social justice work from the state to artists. Please email suggestions for future topics [...]
Read more...Crafty Bastards
The New York City Ballet performed at the Kennedy Center Opera House this week showcasing works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Christopher Wheeldon and Peter Martins. NYCB was created as a vehicle for George Balanchine’s movement preference for abstract black and white ballets (so called because of the stark costumes of black/white tights and [...]
Read more...Guest Aniruddhan
Why I dance
Talking of the “inner impulse” called “inspiration,” my most favourite poet Wislawa Szymborska says this in her 1996 Nobel Prize acceptance speech: ” It’s just not easy to explain something to someone else that you don’t understand yourself.” Notwithstanding the fact that I am light years away from being half as inspired or [...]
Guest Mesma
Why I dance?
…the only person you are in competition with is the individual you know you can become…” – Martha Graham
That is the absolute beauty of dance.
My relationship with dance is complex and yet simple. I sleep, walk, bathe, eat, wander, dream and suffer with dance. Sometimes because of it. I am [...]
Guest Author Eva
A life of loving dance
by Eva Yaa Asantewaa
Dakshina is featuring guest writers on our blog telling us what drew them to dance and the arts. We’re very proud to have Eva Yaa Asantewaa start this series for us.
Music touched my life even before I drew my first breath. When she was pregnant with [...]
Royal Ballet Review
June 25, 2009
The Royal Ballet began their Kennedy Center run this week with a mixed program showcasing the company’s strength and versatility. The company is the resident ballet at London’s Covent Garden and is one of the leading dance companies in the world. The ballet offerings ranged from the starkly beautiful “Chroma” by [...]
A Fine Balance
The Sensual S–Experiencing Anish Kapoor’s sculpture through movement
Recently, I was invited to lead a movement workshop to explore Anish Kapoor’s S-Curve sculpture that is currently on display at the Smithsonian. Dakshina’s senior dancers assisted me in preparing for the workshop and we discovered how masterfully Kapoor used the very still S-Curve to create movement [...]
S-Curve Feedback
Dakshina lead an interactive workshop with Anish Kapoor’s S-Curve Sculpture at the Sackler Gallery in June. Here are the comments from one participant.
Hello Mr. Singh,
I just wanted to write and say how much I enjoyed the Sensual S workshop you and the dancers of Dakshina led on Saturday. It greatly enhanced my [...]
Joe Goode Review
Joe Goode: Signature or Formulaic?
Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 12:43am
Joe Goode Performance Group danced at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on May 1-2, 2009 and presented excerpts from his 1996 piece Maverick and the area premiere of Wonderboy. Based in San Francisco, Goode has been exploring and showcasing movement theater works that incorporate [...]
