The Troth | Watch the Full Show
Akademi are re-releasing the full recording of The Troth online for one month only from 7 August 2020.
Aharyabhinaya in Odissi
#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.
Army @ The Virtual Fringe | Projection & Choreography
Akademi’s Artistic Director Suba Subramaniam will explore the use of projection in dance and theatre productions as part of this year’s Army @ The Virtual Fringe programme.
From Cataloguing Artefacts to Cataloguing Dance Archives: an Archaeologist Explores
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.
Introduction to Kalarippayattu
#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.
Ethnic? Exotic? The language of Indian classical dances in the UK
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.