Casting for the UK Premiere of Bhangra Nation – A New Musical, presented by Birmingham Rep in association with Mara Isaacs, Tom Kirdahy and Peggy Koenig, has been announced today. Based on competitive ...
Walls adorned with pictures of Columbia Bhangra and light-up letters spelling out “BHEIGHTS” surrounded the seats of Roone Arledge Auditorium. As the melodies of music rang throughout, the audience’s ...
What do you get when you cross Dancing With the Stars, downtown Miami and Bollywood? The first-annual Bhangra Competition, that’s what. While salsa may be the dance and music of choice of the Magic ...
The West End may bereft of original new musicals but regional theatre is full of companies, venues and artists tirelessly working to create good, fresh musical theatre. Rifco Arts is one of these ...
Choreographer Donald Byrd recently became fascinated with Indian music — not the ancient kind, but the pounding rhythms of Indian dance clubs. This week, he brings to Houston the result of that ...
Pump Up the Bhangra is a celebration of the way young British Asians have found their voice and their identity through bhangra music over the past thirty years Fronted by BBC Asian Network DJ Bobby ...
PATHANKOT: As Balbir Jagga drives a tractor around his farm in northwestern India, he dreams that the fields he tills will propel him to international music stardom. Jagga, like thousands of other ...
It all started in the 14th Century. Bored wheat farmers in Punjab (a region in Northern India and Pakistan) created a dance based on the motions involved in harvest. That dance was called bhangra, and ...