Dance is one of my greatest passions… ballet, street dance, ballroom, latin, tap, you name it I love it, I could watch it for hours and occasionally (when I think no one is watching) I'll take part myself, dancing around the house with my children. And yes I too am waiting in eager anticipation for the next season of Strictly Come Dancing to commence this evening.
However, it is live performance that sends chills down my spine. Most of my appreciation comes from the fact that I still regret giving up ballet at an early age and am in awe of anyone who has followed their dreams. I...
An Exeter-based company, Interwoven Productions, welcomed Indian dance star Ajeesh K Balakrishnan to the South West in a launch party attended by The Exeter Daily Editor Natalie Vizard and held at Evolution’s Merlin’s Cave, Fore St, Exeter.
Ajeesh comes fresh from the world-renowned Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts in Bangalore and has toured Europe and Asia with them.
Producer, JoJo Spinks says “It’s an extraordinary coup to attract an artist of Ajeesh’s standing to the SW but I think we had a secret weapon ….”
Pictured here alongside Ajeesh is Kay Crook, his...
An intercultural love poem – featuring the exhilarating and powerful Classical Indian dance of Ajeesh K Balakrishnan in collaboration with Exeter talent Kay Crook.
Antara is sanscrit for ‘between’. The story reaches into the space between science and spiritually, between life and death and between cultures. It asks, what peace can a young man find having rejected a celestial, alien love, because she is different. While he held that love, he felt whole at last…. and his soul yearns to get her back.
Drawing on references in the ancient Vedic texts to the “ties” that bind the...
Antara is a new production combining the extraordinary talents of Ajeesh K Balakrishnan, fresh from the Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts in Bangalore and Exeter-based dancer Kay Crook with the words of local writer JoJo Spinks in collaboration with urban poet Steve Duncan. In a truly inter-cultural collaboration Antara celebrates diversity bringing together influences from all over the globe to create a visually stunning performance that interweaves dance and poetry to powerful effect.
A Sanskrit word for ‘between’, Antara follows the story of a young man who is trying to find...
