Archive for the ‘Dance’ Category

Ravi Shankar. Photograph: Felix Clay for the Guardian

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011



“In India, they thought I was mad’ …
Ravi Shankar. Photograph: Felix Clay for the Guardian

I haven’t seen any recent pictures of Ravi Shankar, but i rather like this one from The Guardian. Its very diffrent to the usual pics you find of him.
Just wish there were more photos from the shoot released.

MORE > Portrait of the artist: Ravi Shankar, musician

Cabein Blog – Subscribers Notice

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Hey all,

Been getting quite a lot of spam subscribers recently and so the Blog mailing list is getting filtered and cleaned up.

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Design Indaba – India Special

Monday, April 11th, 2011

Q310: MADE IN INDIA – ONCE WE WERE COOL

Awesome issue from Design Indaba covering

(BAD) NEWS
AIR INDIA: FLIGHTS OF FANCY
BANGALORE: THE WAY IT WAS
ECO-FRIENDLY: EVOLUTION EQUALS…
FILMI*
GOA: WISH YOU WERE HERE
IDEALISM (GONE IN 60 YEARS)
JAI HIND
LOOK: BEST QUALITY SINCE 1970
OPULENCE
PARADISE LOST
QUEENS
SARI: A MIGHTY FINE TRADITION

…Some great stuff to read through.

OPULENCE

Typography

 

Fav Artist of 2010

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

Check out more of his sick stuff over @
http://www.myspace.com/skrillex/

Nerm & D-Code vs Orifice Vulgatron (Foreign Beggars) – Fray

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Following from”Outlaw” comes “Fray” taken from the album “Phasmatis In Machina” out on Shiva Soundsystem Recordings.

You can view some of the artwork for the physical album Phasmatis In Machina on the Cabein site > Click here

Hip Hop meets snarling Metal

Director – Shaft Uddin
DOP – Kwami
Post Production – Kooch Chung
Art Direction – Kunal Anand @ Cabein
Make up – Becky Perkins
Producer – Nerm

Featuring: Jenna G, Huw Stephens, DJ Kayper + Nathan “Flutebox” Lee

Cast: Nina Hunjan, Elio D’Anna Jr, Pravvy Prav, Silent Source, D-Code, Nerm, Bambooclart, Kunal Anand, Roshani Hewa, Ravneet Dhanjal, Natashca Nanji, Nellie Hamid, Matilde Ramos Pinto, Reju Sharma, Rupa Bhatti, Kam Bagri Dhanjal, Ed Nattrass, Amrita Singh, Lesh Thapar

And heres the making of, shot by Laura Taflinger

Amelia – ballet

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Stunning choreography, set design and direction.

Svapnagata Festival

Monday, October 12th, 2009

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Meaning ‘dreaming’ in Sanskrit, Svapnagata is a unique two-week festival of Indian music and dance curated by two multi award-winning artists – dancer and choreographer Akram Khan and composer Nitin Sawhney.

With a wide range of events taking place in the main house and the Lilian Baylis Studio, the festival offers a dazzling array of performances from some of the finest Indian musicians, dancers and choreographers, presenting classical work in a contemporary context.

> Sadler’s Wells

Urban Vani – The Kathak Beatbox Choir

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

As posted before Music through unconventional means presented by Shlomo with Gauri Sharama down at the Southbank

Finally some vids, live it was truly inspiring 

Shlomo

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

A vevry sick man Shlomo is doing a gig down the Southbank Centre thats going to be insane.
His skills alonside khatak by Gauri Sharma.

La Bayadère

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Wow this looks amazing….

An incredible story of a beautiful temple dancer Nikiya, who provokes a murderous jealously from her rival Gamzatti is set in a beautiful lush, Indian landscape. With its passionate characters, lavish staging and some of the most challenging ballet choreography, La Bayadére is sure to take your breath away…

> Read more 
> Trailer