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Category: Kalaa Utsavam
Kalaa Utsavam 2025: Soumik Dattaās Mone Rekho, the music that remembers
Soumik brings this deeply personal work to Kalaa Utsavam 2025 at the Esplanade, Singapore, offering audiences an immersive journey through sound, story and remembrance. Connected to India’s Sudipto Maity caught up with Soumik ahead of his concert in the city-state on November 28.
From Javed Akhtar’s anecdotes to Zakir Khan’s standup: A complete guide to performers and acts at Kalaa Utsavam 2025
Each year in November, the Esplanade ā Theatres on the Bay lights up Singapore’s artistic and cultural fabric with Kalaa Utsavam, the Indian Festival of Arts. What began in 2002 as a small cultural celebration has now become one of the most anticipated annual arts festivals in the city-state. It is a space where Indian […]
Singapore has an āopennessā that is special for performing arts, says Bharatanatyam dancer Mythili Prakash
Dancer Mythili Prakash comes to Singapore in November to participate in Kalaa Utsavam 2024 ā as one of the artistes in GIGENIS ā the generation of the Earth, directed by Akram Khan; and to conduct a masterclass in choreography in Bharatanatyam.
āTrain to Pakistan tells us that societies are fragile and stability canāt be taken for grantedā
Ahead of the playās premiere at Kalaa Utsavam on November 20, Daisy Irani (executive producer and director) and Subin Subaiah (playwright, dramatist, and researcher) talk about why this India-Pakistan Partition story resonates with Singapore and with the wider 21st century world.
Living Ancestor is heavily influenced by my relationship with Mahavidya goddess Matangi, says Singapore poet-performer ArunDitha
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Kalaa Utsavam set to enthral Singapore in November, with Akram Khanās GIGENIS as highlight show
Alongside Akram Khan, GIGENIS brings together different Indian dance forms and some of their finest performers from three continents. The show makes its exclusive Asian stop in Singapore during Kalaa Utsavam, following its world premiere in France in August 2024. It will also tour London and New York.
If you have moved countries, you will relate with Fistful of Rupees: Shiv Tandan
I met the ātwo idiots”, like the ones from Aamir Khanās super hit film, ā3 Idiotsā, in Mumbai’s Sahara Hotel.
From singer Armaan Malikās stage debut in Singapore to ākillariousā Tamil comedy, Kalaa Utsavam 2023 brings the full range of Indian performance arts
Kalaa Utsavam, the famed annual Indian festival of arts in Singapore, returns this November for its 2023 edition, with a vibrant bouquet of artistic and cultural performances, and a series of workshops and masterclasses.
Celebrating 20 years to Kalaa Utsavam; nostalgia, pride, joy, ambition, binds arts aficionados in their love for Singaporeās celebration of Indian arts
Singapore’s celebration of Indian arts: special programme highlighting the positive contributions of Celebrating 20 years of Kalaa Utsavam.
