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Saalumarada Thimmakka’s story of planting banyan trees led to a determined quest to find her, and a show about her lifeWhen she was a teenage girl, Saalumarada Thimmakka planted her first banyan tree just outside the remote Indian village of Hulikal, i…
Read MoreAfter breakdancing debuted at the games in China, members of the Thai national team say they needed support for hair treatmentA member of Thailand’s national breakdancing team has spoken about one of the lesser known challenges of the sport – hair loss…
Read MoreVoguing is a dance style characterised by staccato hand motions and angular arm and body postures punctuated by brief pauses. Popularised in 1990 by a hit Madonna song and the documentary Paris is Burning, the trend has drawn adherents in China too, wi…
Read MoreNancy Yu, AKA Asia One is drawing on the hip-hop movement’s activist roots to help a group of artists and their families escape the TalibanA veteran of the hip-hop scene and internationally celebrated breakdancer, Nancy Yu – AKA Asia One – has her fair…
Read MoreArtists from traditional communities and new wave performers to come together online for the country’s first drag conferenceTwo years ago, in early June 2019, a young man stepped on stage at a small cafe in the south Indian city of Hyderabad to sing La…
Read MoreAfter just four years’ training in India and some fast crowd-funding, Kamal Singh joins English National Ballet SchoolKamal Singh did not even know what ballet was when he turned up nervously at the Imperial Fernando Ballet School, in Delhi, during the…
Read MoreFemale musicians say abuse by gurus has been an open secret for years in a culture where ‘toxic and old-fashioned patriarchy’ holds swayOne of India’s most venerated cultural traditions – the centuries-old guru-shishya (disciple) method of learning cla…
Read MoreThe national ballet troupe will become the first classical company in the world to perform an entire year of works choreographed by womenIt’s an ethereal art form in which dancers, who are overwhelmingly female, strive for unattainable perfection perfo…
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