Tales of songbirds, or Bulbuls, have inspired South Asian storytellers for centuries. British dancer and choreographer Aakash ...
A striking new solo dance piece uses wild songbirds as a metaphor for an artist’s life, writes Kelly Apter Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the ...
You hear it a lot in foyers. “A short show’s a good show” we cry before heading into the auditorium. It’s shorthand, if you will, for the knowledge that we don’t want to be detained too long if a ...
A moving dance work inspired by the Sufi nightingale myth comes to The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi A nightingale sings its ...
Did a nightingale sing in Westfield Greggs? Well, not exactly. But just 10 minutes’ walk from the Stratford shopping behemoth, the transfixing dancer Aakash Odedra is leaving it all on stage and ...
Aakash Odedra has an eye for a stage full of drama. Even before he moves a muscle in this haunting and mesmerising retelling of a Persian myth about a captured bird, we have drunk in the crescent moon ...
The award-winning dancer combines kathak dance and Sufi mysticism for a search for spiritual and artistic freedom Leicester-based dancer Aakash Odedra picked up the National Dance Award for ...