Akademi Chronicles
Negotiating Natyam
Symposium, 2005
Akademi’s full-scale symposium, Negotiating Natyam, held on October 9th 2005, in the Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House, London, attracted a wide range of contributors and audience from the arena of South Asian dance both in the UK and world-wide. Drawing on performance, film, lecture-demonstrations and panel discussions, it celebrated and debated the classical dance form of Bharatanatyam from its origins to the present day.