It was with excitement and trepidation that I walked into Sadler’s Wells studios on Monday morning to attend Akram Khan Company’s very first Classical Intensive. I was selected to attend as an Observer...but what did that mean?

Padmabhushan Smt. Kalanidhi Narayanan was one of the world's top exponents of abhinaya, the art of expression. She passed away on Sunday February 21, 2016. I was lucky to have learned from her; these are my memories from those interactions.