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A New Collaboration with the Aakash Odedra Company

Special Collections was delighted to accept a new donation in the summer: the papers of Leicester-based dance organisation the Aakash Odedra Company. 

Part of the donation, newly arrived at the archive and ready for processing!

The collection includes programmes, tickets, recordings, posters and flyers for numerous Aakash Odedra Company productions as well as some materials relating to the Desi Masti dance school.

A selection of items from the collection: programmes, tickets and DVD recordings of performances.

The Aakash Odedra Company are celebrating their 10th anniversary this year and to mark this milestone we partnered with the Leicester Gallery to showcase not only items from the archive but also props and costumes from the landmark productions they've performed over the last decade.

Costume from Sukanya, 2012.

Props from Murmur, 2016

The exhibition will be on until early November and is free to access in the Atrium of the Vijay Patel Building (near the 'Harry Potter' staircase).

Meanwhile we are working on listing the collection. You can see the listing here: https://specialcollections.catalogue.dmu.ac.uk/records/A11. All are welcome to visit the archive and view the papers, email us on archives@dmu.ac.uk to make an appointment.