US-based Battery Dance Company enthralls Kolkata with a fusion of American and Indian dance forms

Kolkata, Jan 31 (IBNS): Engaging in collaboration in the arts is one of the best ways that different nations can get to know each other on a level beyond politics, said U.S. Consul General Craig Hall during his opening remarks at a performance by the New York City-based Battery Dance Company in Kolkata, recently.

Ari Roland Jazz Quartet of the US and folk musicians of Bengal create magic through music

Kolkata, Dec 12 (IBNS): As the Ari Roland Jazz Quartet’s music fused with the soulful Baul songs of Bengal, the audience was practically ready to do a 'Dumbledore' (headmaster of Hogwarts in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series), ready to repeat his famous comment, “Ah, music, ... A magic beyond all we do here!”