Work / The Artta

The Veena is a stringed lute instrument, which is also the oldest within the South Asian tradition and often overshadowed by its North Indian cousin, the Sitar. Each individual instrument has its own tonal quality, style and timbre. In One, Mithila Sarma, looks at creating a new

ARRANGE THAT MARRIAGE

Throw in a couple of hysterical parents and some confused young ones… add a ‘liberal’ helping of emotional blackmail and some good old fashioned cultural pressure… allow to simmer .. then sprinkle with music and dance from the Bollywood, Nashville and R&B genres… What do

THE MAHARAJAH & KOHINOOR

A most illustrious episode of British colonial history... Before it became part of the Crown Jewels, the Kohinoor diamond had many keepers, many Kings and many Emperors but there was one who was very special... The young
 Maharajah, Duleep Singh of Punjab, India. Separated from

SLUT

A Kathak dance-theatre piece exploring issues of sexual grooming across culture and race while challenging labels given to women who do not conform to expectation. Slut is an ongoing development of kathak’s ang abhinaya by Amina Khayyam in which she steps up the collaboration with physical theatre/mime

ROUTES

a zerOclassikal commission : GIULIANO MODARELLI    The versatile guitarist, Giuliano Modarelli uses the notion of the drone to incorporate sounds of dub and spiritual jazz to Indian Classical music, without changing the repertoire but manipulating sounds to create a new timbre to the music.

AGENT

In a makeshift shelter under a concrete motorway bridge – KAM brings medicine to JORRA who huddles up from the cold - feverish and shivering. They live there amongst a colony of other migrant men who have illegal status in the UK.   Jorra is worried