Press

2024 ARTS HUB Review: Temple of Desire: Malthouse Theatre

2024 THE AGE: Temple of Desire pre-season coverage

2024 Breaking form in Bharatanatyam: Govind Pillai’s ‘Temple of Desire’ (Indian Link)

2022 THE AGE: Karma Dance at State Library
Victoria

2022 THE CONVERSATION: Govind Pillai in Finucane & Smith’s Future.Joy.Club

2022. AUSTRALIAN STAGE: Govind Pillai in Finucane & Smith’s Future.Joy.Club

2020 We’ve been here before (Arts Centre,
Melbourne)

2019 ABC: Midsumma’s BODY champions trans
and gender diverse artists


2019 THE AGE: Go West for the Due West Arts
Festival - Raina and Govind in Kala

2019 Re-garlanding the body

2019 Dismantle the colonial institutions of gender
binary

2019 A place where western ideas of otherness do
not exist

2019 Indian dance traditions smash through gender
binary

2019 Third Nature: Breaking down body stigma

2018    It is bent, it is bollywood it is so much more

2018    Raunchy yet riveting

2018    Review: Bent Bollywood

2018    Smart beyond their bodies

2018    Raina displays power of dance

2018    Bending gender through dance

2018    New twist on Indian dance set to dazzle

2017    Arangetram Next-gen Approach

2017    Debut with a difference

2016    Deconstructing Bharatanatyam

2016    The Dance of Vedanta

2015    The Beauty and Technical Rigour of Classical             Indian Dance Interpreted by a Divine Couple

2015   In Plain Sanskrit - Reviewed

2015    Complexity disguised 'In Plain Sanskrit'

2015   Stepping Back in Time

2015   Dance Program on the Precipice of Tradition

2015   Art of the Ancients

2015    Tradition and Modernity: an interview

2015    A Dance Performance That Erases Boundaries

2014    Performers Embrace Universal Language of     
            Dance

2014    Govind Pillai's Journey of
            Social Change Through Art

2014   Classical Indian Arts in a New
           Australian Generation

2014    Mother Tongue Opens at Bangarra

2013    Usha Ramanujam reviews Sutra

2013    Tagore Comes Alive

2013    Tagore’s Vision The Poetry of India

2011     Finding the Divine in Dance

2011     Sarvesha

2010    Krishna’s Magic Flute

2010    Shakti Dominates Body & Soul

2010    Rare Chance to Watch Two Dancing Siblings

2009   Govind Pillai is a Brilliant Dancer

2009   Govind Conquers Bhava & Bhakti

2009   A Passion for Dance

2008   A Sentimental Yatra

2007   The Dance of the Five Elements

Television and Radio

SBS Spice covers Temple of Desire:
Breaking Norms, Loving Tradition’

SBS Spice covers Temple of Desire:
’ On Kali performing massacres’

SBS Spice covers Temple of Desire:
’Bharatanatyam is about spirituality and sensuality’

TVNZ Covers our production ‘Sutra Secrets of Classical Indian dance’

New Zealand's Leader of the Opposition speaks in support of our work:

ABC TV (Australia) Breakfast Show:

TVS behind-the-scenes coverage of ‘Sutra: secrets of classical Indian dance’

Radio