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Music and movement to dispel the grey skies
Our highlights tinyurl.com/3m98jbeh
January 30, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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Among our highlights:
- New recording label launched
- Winter Solstice with Muslim Shaggan
- Odissi showcase in Bedford
tinyurl.com/Highlights-602
#bn #bhararanatyam
#odissi
#sitar
#muslimshaggan
December 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Dance and music traditions reimagined; challenges to #academicfreedom; tribute to poet and translator #WilliamRadice. Our highlights- tinyurl.com/Highlights-601
#immersive #multisensory
#childrensshow
#tablasolo #sarangi #muradali
#carnaticmusicteaching #carnaticmusiclearning
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Joyful and challenging themes picked up in our newsletter, from harmony to disruption, displacement to hope, in dance, music and film - tinyurl.com/Highlights-600
#ekata #bn
#kuchipudi
#treeoflife
#leavetoremain
#unplugged
#soumikdatta #sarod #agakhanmusicawards
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Female artists raising awareness about difficult issues; music drawing on traditions and breaking new ground - our highlights tinyurl.com/Highlights-599

#kuchipudi #justenoughmadness #motherhood #miscarriage #mentalhealth
#kathak #domesticabuse #bird
#sitar #khayal
November 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Segue through from classical to contemporary to jazz. Creative collaborations and explorations; & a theatrical triumph - our highlights
tinyurl.com/Highlights-598
#bn #karnatic
#kathak
#saswatisen
#sitar #tabla
#sarathykorwar
#freeflowclassikal
#periodparrty #gayathirikamalakanthan
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Darkness and light in our highlights
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Anniversary celebrations Milap #40 and Darbar - Indian Classical Music at #20; #diwali; and illuminating explorations of dark histories Shobana Jeyasingh Dance #wecaliban The Singh Twins Kew Gardens #floraindica
October 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Human experience, and humanity above all.
Our highlights this week tinyurl.com/Highlights-594
#astitva #queersouthasian
#fatherhood
#nartanfestival
#roshni #kathak
#bn #bharatanatyam
#globalhindutva #edwardanderson
#karlsingporewala #zoroastrianism @SoasGallery
#humanity
October 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Stories, histories, drama.

Check out our newsletter highlights tinyurl.com/Highlights-593
September 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Challenging and cutting-edge dance, a tabla wizard and a 100 strings – our highlights over the next couple of weeks tinyurl.com/Highlights-592
#wecaliban #thetempest #shakespeare #contemporarydance #indianclassicaldance #kalaripayattu
#kathak #bn
#sukhvindersingh
#sarangi #santoor
September 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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‘… an alertness in the body and spirit that says, this moment is everything’

Bharatanatyam artist, ceramicist and performer #VidyaThirunarayan ‘Clay, cues and cardboard houses: A day in the double life of a Performer-director’ - tinyurl.com/Holy-Dirt

Photos: Robert Golden
September 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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London, Leicester, Cardiff, Manchester- catch a show near you.
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#summerfestivals #autumnprogrammes
#thelostbreath
#utsav
#odissi #kuchipudi #kathak #bn #bharatanatyam
#sitar #ustadshujaatkhan
#indianslideguitar #sarangi
#iammrinal #pialiray
#movingstillness
September 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Segue from summer into September with outdoor free dance, musicians making waves, conversations and dance to make you think - our bank holiday double issue newsletter highlights
tinyurl.com/Highlights-590
@pagravdanceco @RWCMD
August 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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From the big names to the hidden gems - Pulse spotlights excellence wherever it is found.
Summer festivals - dance, music & film, student showcases, exhibition. #pulsehighlights
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July 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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‘The spinning bodies and swirling skirts mesmerised onlookers… the spraying of sand was matched to perfection by a gentle breeze that lifted the grains of sand.’
‘Garbh’ at the Richmond Arts & Ideas Festival Read Anita Chanda's response:
pulseconnects.com/garbh
June 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Midsummer music plus dance, exhibition and films to help you savour the season.
tinyurl.com/Highlights-584
June 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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‘In India, dance is not merely performed; it is lived. It seeps into the body through ritual, mythology, familial memory, and collective inheritance.’
Pratiti Ghosh reflects on politics of performance in India and the UK.
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June 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Indoors and out, north to south, or a book in your hands – our highlights:
GARBH – SHYAM DATTANI | QAWWALI | FLUTE | SOLSTICE | ODISSI | SOUMIK DATTA | SRI LANKAN DANCE | MOVING STILLNESS
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June 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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'Her footwork was crisp, and her stage presence, magnetic.'
Annapoorna Kuppuswamys 'Arangetram: Reflections of a Dancer' poses the question:
'...do we want our art to remain the domain of a privileged few, or can we work to democratise it?'
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June 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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From images on camera to images in stone - with live performances conjuring images on stage and in the mind - check out our highlights tinyurl.com/Highlights-582
#ankh #kathak #garbha #bn #bharatanatyam #images #qawwali
June 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Ancient India: living traditions
British Museum London, until 25th October 2025
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‘…handsome, coherent… approachable and attractive… but not the whole story’
Our review of the exhibition - pulseconnects.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Please join us for a performance by two outstanding odissi artists: Elena Catalano and Katie Ryan. 
Drishti- The Gaze of the Beloved focuseson the power of the eyes to convey meaning and emotion both in storytelling and in non-narrative dance.

culturetrust.com/whats-on/drish…
May 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Half term, dance, theatre, festival, exhibition – all in our double issue newsletter tinyurl.com/Highlights-581
@southbankcentre.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Durga Tilak is a materials scientist interested in examining where art and science meet.

In her blog ‘On Metrics and the State of Being in Classical Dance’ she discusses and seeks equilibrium.
What are your thoughts?
tinyurl.com/Metrics-and-cl…
May 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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‘..it is not the eyes that are blind, but it is the hearts in the chests that grow blind’
Let us see, hear and feel.
Our newsletter highlights this week tinyurl.com/Highlights580
May 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM