Hundreds of clay lamps will sparkle on the moonlit evening of Sharad Purnima at the 7th edition of Smart Garbotsav. Garba, an age old, folk dance form, will be enlivened in its traditional avatar – a halogen free ambiance – at the Garba…

Natarani Theatre brings a host of nationally acclaimed plays to Ahmedabad this week with its Sunday to Sunday Theater Festival. Grab your seats. For years, theatre enthusiasts in Ahmedabad have often been dismayed by the lack of high- production plays…

Folk dances at Sangeet Natak Akademi’s music and culture festival remind of the joy of raw storytelling. The programme is on till today, September 28.  Moths and other insects danced under the yellow stage lights around a host of golden-clad percussionists. The stage was (literally) abuzz with excitement. This was…

‘Normal.Numb’ marked World Suicide Prevention Day in Ahmedabad through a three-day performance series organised by Saath Charitable Trust and Arpita Dhagat’s team of performers.  A recent Lancet study indicates that nearly 40% of suicides by women world-over are by Indian women. In…

As the hysteria around International Rock Star Bryan Adams’ concert in Ahmedabad heats up, the organisers are elated with the rising demand for tickets. We have learnt that the show is going to open premium seating options for booking soon. Ticket Layout…

Theatre personality Arundhati Nag whose immense contribution to the field of performing arts has resulted in world class performance space ‘Ranga Shankara’ in Bengaluru, was in Ahmedabad to participate in NeeKoee Foundation’s Children Theatre Festival. She’s also a film actor known…

Starting on 8th August, the five-day festival for kids will also have a workshop and panel discussion for parents and teachers that will host the likes of psychiatrist Dr Shekhar Seshadri and actress Arundhati Nag. The mind of a child is like…

Source: sangeetnatak.gov.in Sangeet Natak Akademi honours  Gujarati music composer & singer Ashit Desai and actor RJ Devaki. Desai is best known for being a Sugam Sangeet singer and composer behind the iconic Doordarshan series ‘Chanakya’.  Legendary sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar composed…

30-year-old author, researcher and storyteller Ankit Chadha, who was considered the youngest proponent of the world’s oldest form of Urdu storytelling, ‘Dastangoi’, drowned in a lake near Pune on Wednesday night. With thunderous voice, Ankit Chadha, who is thought to…

The grandest Indo-American dance show in the world is coming to the city of Charlotte. Portraying culture from across four states of India, the show has an entertaining Bollywood twist. Book your seats now!  Mystic India: The World Tour is…

Padmashree winning choreographer Kumudini Lakhia explains the three stages of creating any art –“Creativity comes with experience and experience comes with Riyaz.” “You like going to the temple because it enhances your five senses. Similarly, dance must be felt –…

Through a surreal mix of spoken word poetry, dance and music, Kohli’s multi-dimensional narrative performance called ‘In Silence, the Secrets Speak’ depicted the dynamic flux of life.Internationally recognised Delhi-based artist Seema Kohli presented a multi-dimensional narrative performance on March 22 called In Silence,…

L to R : Suresh Bharadwaj and Bhargav Thakkar After travelling to Poland, China, South Korea, Turkey Russia and Japan the monumental performing arts festivity, Theatre Olympics has arrived in India to commemorate its 8th edition. The 51 days long celebration…

When a peaceful candle march agitating against film Padmavat turned into an attempt of ruckus, on the evening of 23rd January 2018 in Ahmedabad, it ended up disrupting the whole of city’s vivacity, we could see unmindful delinquents torching and destroying…

Darpana Academy’s Kadak Badshahi 2.0 team is on a creative high. Within less than a week of its launch at Srirangam Amphi Theatre of Shreyas Foundation, the team has it evolved to a new peak. In the sweep of its action,…

A child’s psychology is absorbent, untainted and enormously vigorous and through the fruitful tool of education, one can invoke the feeling of virtue in those tender minds very humbly. It is more important to make a child humane first and…

Through its conceptualization and design, Abhivyakti City Arts Project evokes ideas basic to art and its expression. ‘Our world of expression,’ Rabindranath Tagore observes in his essay What is Art? ‘does not coincide with the world of facts.’ The fund…

Rajat Kapoor and Gauri Bakshi Eminent playwright, wordsmith, actor and filmmaker Rajat Kapoor has always been the talk of the B-town for his film ‘Ankhon Dekhi’ which revived the independent cinema genre in India. On January 11, 2018, Kapoor arrived in…

City’s most fabled performing arts show – Kadak Badshahi, is arriving with its second edition on January 18 and will continue to vitalise the audience of Ahmedabad with significant metropolis chronicles until February 1, 2018, at the 3000 people capacitating Shreyas Foundation Amphitheatre.…

Adolescence is a crucial time for a child in developing its physiological aspects utmost. And in this age, the involvement in performing arts can work as a catalyst to nourish a child holistically. The Footlights Theatre, an organisation that has…

Ahmedabad will witness a one of its kind Folk Dance Event  on 19th and 20th of November, 2017. FICCI FLO, the women’s wing of the industry body, has decided to elevate the performing arts genre through the first edition of International…

Veteran theatre personality, who invested around four decades of his lifetime uplifting the Gujarati drama industry by his immense contribution of more than 104 profound plays, has left for the heavenly abode on the wee hours of tuesday morning, November 14, 2017.…

In the age of globalisation, when people are more inclined towards the fact of settling down, the culture of Pastoralism throws light on the life of nomadic tribes. Living Lightly – Journeys with Pastoralists (Maaldhari) is a collaborative initiative by Centre…

Indian Events in Charlotte The Gujjubhai series of play is a hit all across the globe since a long time, and the most anticipated part comes, when it is being performed in Charlotte, USA to celebrate the Indian Independence Day…

Kathak exponent Sanjukta Sinha, who has recently performed at the Broadway Symphony Theatre in New York and has to her credit path breaking interpretations of the traditional art form Kathak, will soon be awarded Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar by Sangeet…

A play based on the relationship between Jain Philosopher Shrimad Rajchandra and Indian Leader Mahatma Gandhi, Yugpurush: Mahatma ke Mahatma is the Hindi play that describes the spiritual journey of Mahatma Gandhi, how he met Shrimad in Mumbai and later shared numerous letters about Satya…

Playwright Saumya Joshi’s blockbuster Gujarati play 102 Not Out, which is a comedy drama featuring a 75-year-old son and a 102-year-old father has now been adapted into a movie, to be directed by Oh My God fame Umesh Shukla. The…

A week before her 85th birthday, on April 3rd,2017, the ‘Gaan-Saraswati’ of India Kishori Amonkar has left for the heavenly abode. The Padma Vibhushan recipient, a pioneer in Hindustani classical vocals. Amonkar was renowned for her influence in redefining singing…

Those my age would remember the four Jhaveri sisters Nayana (eldest), Ranjana, Suvarna and Darshana, who became famous beginning the late fifties for their beautiful Manipuri dances. In those days it was bold of parents to have encouraged girls to…

Bindadin Maharaj is considered the aadiguru of modern Kathak. Along with his brother Kalkaprasad, he elevated the legacy of Kathak he received from his father to a structured lyrical level.  One of his many compositions, often visualized on stage, is…

IceCraft emerges as a patron for art with its first Classical Dance Festival to be held at 8:30 pm on February 18, 19 and 21 at the Bodakdev AMC Auditorium, a new venue for performing arts that has come up…

Day 11 : Experience of flawless artistry  The following artists took part on the 11th day of the Saptak music festival. They are  Smt. Monica Shah, Shri.Shubh Maharaj, Shri Krishnamohan Bhatt and Smt.Kaushiki Chakraborty. Kaushiki was the  rock star of…

  It was a shock for fraternity when the news of sudden demise of veteran and versatile actor Om Puri started flashing. He left for heavenly abode on January 6, 2017, due to a cardiac arrest. The traumatic tornado of…

Music is a therapy, and a musician is nonetheless a therapist. Humans have been creating great melodies since thousands of years and relishing it through varied art forms, while India is a country where performing arts and music composition have been…

Ironically, the ‘Last Christmas’ singer left for heavenly abode on Christmas Day, making December 25th his last christmas! English Singer, Lyricist and Record producer George Michael left fans across the globe weeping with his untimely exit. George, the pop legend from England,…

Are we really powerful to absorb all our pain, anxiety and solitude? Is the ‘self’ being camouflaged under the mask of an outgoing public identity. To put it simply, is the ‘Self’ being drowned by the ‘Selfie’ ? The crowd who had…

Aladdin comes to Broadway. The renowned musical, released in 1992 is now all set to be featured as a fantastic theater performance by Disney. The play will be directed by famous Casey Nicholaw from “The Book of Mormon” and will have fantastic performances…

A solitaire was lost from the necklace of Indian Carnatic music on November 22, 2016. Vocalist and composer M. Balamuralikrishna was suffering from acute illness and took his last breath in Chennai. A veteran who was apt in almost every music…

  Ahmedabad University-Centre for Heritage Management (AU-CHM) organized the Concluding event of the 33 months long EU-funded project ‘Cultural Heritage Management & Venture Lab in Ahmedabad’ on Tuesday, 13th September 2016, The guest of honor Mr. Emilio Contreras, First Secretary,…

An auditorium prettified with colourful cushions, the Ahmedabad Poetry Festival showcase had bravura literature flowing in the air. The final poems of the participants’ performance reflected the startling learnings from the previous 2 days. Sonnets, poems, and songs filled the…

Kaushiki Chakrabarty the famous Indian classical vocalist has been invited to sing at Charlotte, NY, the USA with a noble cause of supporting Gastric Cancer Research. The musical night has been organized by Indian Expressions and Creative Yatra (US) on…

  Rolling drums and striking cymbals, the hazy smoke over the stage was making the band’s feet go numb. Tuning guitars, testing mics and rising Rock fever in audience is a typical Mozart Music World Scenario. 11th June, Saturday was…

Dr. Palash Sen, lead singer of the band Euphoria comes up and explains, why audience is only able to hear the Bollywood film music and not Indipop anymore. He actually starts the video while saying “I am angry”. He reacts upon…

From Porbandar to South Africa Manoj Shah’s ‘Mohan No Masalo’ recalled Gandhiji’s formative crystallizing life experiences in a unique manner. The play is going Mumbai this week and will be performed in 3 different languages on a single day, which…

  The 8th official instalment in the Harry Potter book series, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is going to be a stage play scheduled on July 30, 2016 at the Palace Theatre, London, England. And the special rehearsal edition…

  The Tempest is the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone and now the Shakespeare admirers have a gilded opportunity to experience the play on their app. Why read the play when you can experience it. Stage actors from USA…

The famous November Rain band is on a ‘Not in this lifetime’ spree with their latest 2016 reunion tour to fetch the longing thirst of US and Canada fans. The bleeding enthusiasm of loyal Guns N Roses supporters is roaring…

Gujarat, a multidimensional state that is flourishing since generations in terms of art, culture, sports, civic development, wildlife, agriculture, industry and countless other aspects. Gujarat is not only a region, but has now turned into a state of mind, where…