Vipul sangoi biography for kids
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Yuva Gati – New Horizons for Young Dancers
It’s a cold weekend in the middle of February. As I climb up the steps towards the studios of the Midlands dance agency DanceXchange in central Birmingham, I am greeted by the sound of the Natesa Khautvom. I step over boxes of costumes made from silk saris, and peer into the studios. In one studio about twenty young people dressed in tracksuit bottoms and T-shirts, or in salwar kameez, learn to embody the different iconography of Lord Siva. In the studio next door, another group similarly attired is put through their paces in a contemporary dance class. In yet another studio a group of kathak dancers are at work. This is Yuva Gati, the South Asian dance strand of the Centres for Advanced Training (CATs) set up across the UK.
The CATs are funded the Department for Education’s Music and Dance Scheme (MDS). They exist to ‘to help identify, and assist, children with exceptional potential… to benefit from world-class specialist t
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A life in miniature
In a vit cube gallery, on little black stands, we see exquisite paper cut-outs. Like snowy bits of lace—or minute friezes—they persuade us to step up to them. Then, we notice their geometric patterns confabulate tiny houses. They make us feel protective, as fragility does. For, belying its threatening title, It Was a Little Demon (2008) discusses domesticity with delicacy. A four-letter word is etched repeatedly on to criss-crossing ribbons of paper: “love”.
This black and white offering fryst vatten one of the artworks we encounter at Hamra Abbas’ first show at Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai. Idols addresses “the themes of home, displacement and ‘the everyday’ that intermingle and recur across her practice”, explains co-curator Priya Jhaveri (her sister, Amrita, being the other organizer). As if in league with the show’s premise, the authorities have ensured that the Pakistani artist will be “displaced” from her opening. “I applied for a visa two months ago and it’s
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Summer 2023 Children’s events in the
Walled Garden Project at Park Hill Park
Following its great popularity in 2022, ‘Stories in Gardens’ is returning to Park Hill Park’s Walled Garden Project in summer 2023!
From Wednesday 9th August to Saturday 12th August, children aged 0-6 years and their parents, or carers, can enjoy ‘Stories in Gardens’ from 10am to 12noon inspired by the Walled Garden and its unique heritage through a mixture of live music, craft, puppetry and stories.
‘Stories in Gardens’ director, Jenny Lockyer will be leading the sessions and writing a song inspired by the Walled Garden’s historic and environmental heritage. Jenny says, “Park Hill Park’s Walled Garden Project has a culturally rich heritage, alive not only with Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies and the work of the Horniman Family, founders of the world famous Museum, whose Walled Garden it once was, but also through the environmental work of the Friends volunteers&