#WednesdayWisdom | Akademi’s latest blog bringing pearls of wisdom from South Asian dance. This week, Odissi dancer Pallavi Basak Vijay illustrates the meaning and background of the style’s ornamentation, hair-style and costumes.
The next blog in our series written by Akademi’s Heritage Project volunteers looks into the cataloguing part of the work, and how the archive is organised in order to facilitate future work and research into Akademi’s heritage.
#WednesdayWisdom | Akademi’s latest blog bringing pearls of wisdom from South Asian dance. This week, Bharatanatyam artist Geetha Sridhar shares her knowledge on the use of mudras in the ancient martial art technique Kalarippayattu.
In the first in our blog series written by Akademi’s Heritage Project volunteers, Subhashini Goda explores what Akademi’s archives reveal about the language commonly used when talking of certain art forms in the UK.
#WednesdayWisdom | Akademi’s latest blog bringing pearls of wisdom from South Asian dance. This week, dance artist Ashwini Kalsekar introduces us to some of the most important mudras in yoga.
#WednesdayWisdom | Akademi’s latest blog bringing pearls of wisdom from South Asian dance. This week we share part 2 of our series on hasta in Manipuri with dance artist Debanjali Biswas.