January 22, 2012 – 3:48 pm
“Crossing” is a fusion dance inspired by the shaman traditions in Korean and the Middle East. It portrays two shamans meeting each other in a shared subconscious state. I like my RiRi but maybe not with my Sufi! After sleeping on it, I still have yet to decide if the starting line-up juxtaposition of a [...]
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 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 [...]