★★★✰✰ Rite of Spring: Through the perspective of a South Asian gaze, the brutality and finality of the original ballet’s pagan sacrifice is tempered by a rich spirituality and the optimistic suggestion of an after-life. It’s still scary but less barbaric.
Tag - Seeta Patel
★★★✰✰ This is a sincere and deeply felt attempt to show us how history gets rewritten to demonise some and exalt others.
Seeta Patel is about to tour the UK with her latest one-woman dance theatre work, "Not Today's Yesterday" - it's about the "whitewashing of history" and we wanted to know more...
A venue programmer tells Seeta that "Narrative work spoon feeds the audience and is just bad work that shouldn't be programmed." Unsurprisingly it prompts a bunch of thoughts. And do add yours as a response...
★★★✰✰ Whitley has merged the different disciplines so successfully that there's relatively little distinction between dancers and jugglers.
★★★✰✰ All up, I much liked the dance I saw for being so fluid, boldly physical and yet also sensual and beautifully rendered. There's a quiet strength to all of it.
I thought I was the only one who encounters euphemistic but quite outrageous comments and suggestions about my work...
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
This programme is a satisfying synthesis of classical music and dance from southern India, all from performers based in the UK.
The double-bill 'Something Then', 'Something Now' focuses on Patel’s classical practice, and showcases the richness of bharatanatyam tradition in the UK.