Brand-new performance from multi-award-winning South Asian dance company
The UK’S leading South Asian dance company is performing in Suffolk later this month, bringing their powerful story of home and belonging to the Theatre Royal stage.
The feel-good production ‘NIDA’ is a brand-new work from the multi-award-winning Sonia Sabri Company, and it offers people an invitation to step away from the stresses and challenges of everyday life and into a world where beautiful, uplifting Kathak dance and soulful Indian music meet by candlelight, providing an intimate and magical experience for those watching.
Through the intricate movements and melodies of dancer and musician, ‘NIDA’ explores how a true home can nourish us, how the loss of home might break us and how to find home wherever we find ourselves; it aims to provide a guiding hand for those who have lost their way, illuminating the path and awakening inspiration.
Featuring live music from the rare and hypnotic Santoor (a trapezoid-shaped instrument), along with soaring vocals and soul-stirring drumming, it is sure to be a treat for the senses. And with gorgeous costumes, immersive lighting, skilful percussive dance, mime, and Indian beatboxing - not to mention audience interaction and participation - it promises to be a thought-provoking, engaging and enriching experience that will stay with you.
“A mesmerising performance. Sonia is a beguiling performer/host and it’s a real treat to spend an evening in her company.”
Sonia Sabri MBE is a multi-award-winning dance artist and choreographer, and her company creates music and dance that is progressive, accomplished and sincerely felt, making connections across cultures and generations.
As one of the leading contemporary South Asian dance and music companies in the UK, Sonia Sabri Company has an international reputation for presenting Kathak dance in a contemporary context; for telling people’s stories and reflecting on the world. The music is rooted in classical Indian traditions but branches into innovative developments with a range of styles including HipHop, Folk and Jazz.
Note: Funded by Arts Council England, the production is ideal for audience members with hearing loss, who are nonverbal or who do not speak English fluently or as a first language.
NIDA is at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds on 23 April 2026.
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