Tag Archives: Akram Kahn

COMING DOWN FROM LUMINATO

Nitin Sawhney performing ‘Prophecy’ last day of Luminato 2011 11 Days & 33 events? I lost count. Plus I plan to go see Srinivas Krishna’s “My Name is Raj” Installation at TIFF when the Raj Kapoor retrospective begins. So should I count that into the final tally? The Luminato Festival was particularly special to me [...]

“THE RAGA IS NOT IN THE HAND OF THE MUSICIAN”

The raga is not in the hand of the musician. The raga is to be found in the air. It knows no nationality or prejudice – Ravi Shankar* I have sipped slurpees at 7-Elevens in Bangkok, ate at McDonald’s in places like Yogyakarta and drank Coca Cola in the Rift Valley listening to Maasai friends [...]