By Susheela Menon The dancer moves to the beat of the idakka, a highly revered percussion instrument of Kerala, at a 2000-year-old temple in South India. She moves from one sanctum to the other till reaching the shrine of Kali, the most powerful goddess in the Hindu pantheon. A crowd gathers as she dances before
By Kaija Pepper Rocío Molina has been dancing since the age of three, in 1987. The Malaga-born artist choreographed her first work, Entre paredes (Among the Walls) at age 22, and has made over a dozen more to date. She has worked with flamenco stars such as María Pagés and Israel Galván, and with the
By Anne-Marie Elmby Once more, summer offered opportunity to stay in touch with dance while also enjoying the outdoors through Verdensballetten (World Ballet). The company opened its 15th tour around Denmark on July 12, in the garden of Sølyst, a 20-minute drive north of Copenhagen. Steven McRae, a principal dancer with London’s Royal Ballet, again