Music/Dance

ACV Quiz 2019 – What kind of asian culture vulture are you? Test yourself…Now for the answers!

Compiled by Suman Bhuchar IT’S THAT time of year again where you can put you artistic wits to the test…

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Year in Review: Our highlights of 2019 by Momtaz Begum-Hossain, Suman Bhuchar and Sailesh Ram

It’s been an incredible year for www.asianculturevulture.com and here three writers look back on their highlights of 2019… Momtaz Begum-Hossain…

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ACV Quiz 2019 – What kind of asian culture vulture are you? Test yourself…

Compiled by Suman Bhuchar IT’S THAT time of year again where you can put you artistic wits to the test…

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Shobana Jeyasingh awarded a CBE – crowning 30 years in dance; other arts & media New Year’s honours recipients – Nadiya Hussain, Nishma Gosrani and Jasvir Kaur Rababan

Choreographer, baker, diversity champ and musician among those named in today’s New Year’s Honours list… ONE OF BRITAIN’S most innovative…

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Darbar Dance 2019 – Are you ready? Starts today Sadler’s Wells (p) 🔹November 23-26

Read our interview with Mavin Khoo, co-curator of Darbar dance, the dance section of Darbar, Europe’s largest Indian classical musical…

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Bird Bites: Unnati & Jyotsna jazz; modern take on ballad of ‘Mohaur Pala’; Six South Asian books vye for $25,000 literary prize; corporate doc has human tale of beauty and help across continents

Bite-size takes on music coming up, a books prize shortlist announced in London and how stories are being told in…

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Darbar Dance 2019 – Changing the narrative: new perspectives on old and trusted ways in Indian classical dance…

Radical, progressive and global in form and content, Indian classical dance is striking out in new ways, says festival co-curator…

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Riz Ahmed highest ranked arts personality in annual British Asian Power List 101…

The GG2 Power List 2020 is out… JUST over a third of the country’s most powerful Asians work in the…

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Shankar 100 – Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar centenary to be celebrated with concerts, films, and exhibition at Southbank Centre in 2020

Daughter Anoushka has played a leading part in putting together a range of events to mark her late and great…

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‘Here and Now’: World premiere for ‘choreographer of the future’ bharatanatyam artist Mythili Prakash performs at Dance Umbrella…

Regarded as one of the finest exponents of bharatanatyam, this artist has the special endorsement of Britain’s very own totemic…

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