Shambik Ghose

Manage your preferences

The Leeds Beckett website is designed to enable you to manage your own privacy preferences. By clicking on 'Cookies' below you can manage what data the site collects about your browsing. This will only maintain if you are on your own device or using a synched version of your chosen browser. If you are using a shared or public machine without synching your browser then there is no need to change the preferences.

Our site is built with accessibility in mind and we seek to adhere to the WACG AA levels of compliance for digital accessibility. To support that we have provided instructions on managing animations below.

Cookies

Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies enable you to use all the different parts of leedsbeckett.ac.uk. Without them services that you have asked for cannot be provided. Necessary cookies can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences.
Analytical Cookies
Analytical cookies help us understand how people are using our websites, so we can improve them and provide a better user experience. We also sometimes get our approved partner companies to analyse how people are using Leeds Beckett Websites and they may set their own analytical cookies in order to do this.
Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies allow us to provide you with online adverts that are the most relevant and useful for you.
For more information please view our Privacy Policy

Animations & Interaction

The Leeds Beckett University website occasionally uses animations to page elements and animated gifs to add impact to pages. If you wish to stop them from playing for accessibility purposes or for personal preference then please see the guidance below. Please note that browsers sometimes change how they operate, so please refer to your browser help files to find their latest information.
How do I turn off animations?

Chrome

Chrome users will need to use browser extensions. Animation Policy from Google will help you set your own preferences.

Microsoft Edge

There is currently no way to disable animations within Microsoft Edge. Users of Edge (Chromium) browser can install the Chrome extensions above and use them.

Internet Explorer

To stop animations on a single page you can just press the 'Esc' key. This will stop the animation on that page. If you wish to restart the animations you need to refresh the page. To permanently disable the playing of animated GIF images, open Internet Options > Advanced tab. Under the Multimedia section, uncheck the Play animations in webpage check-box, click Apply and Exit and then restart your computer.

Firefox

Type about:config in Firefox address bar and hit Enter to open Settings. Search for the image.animation_mode flag and change its value from Normal to None. Once you restart Firefox this will disable animations.

Dr Shambik Ghose is a researcher, choreographer, and movement pedagogue. Shambik, with a Diploma in Performing Arts from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, began his artistic career with his creative partner, Dr Mitul Sengupta. Together with their dance company Rhythmosaic, they created dance/choreographic works that echoed fascinating possibilities that a hybrid artistic engagement between disparate cultures might entail.

Shambik enrolled as a student in the MA Choreography at LBU with a Dean’s scholarship in 2018. He then went on to complete his PhD with a scholarship in 2025 from LBU. It was at LBU where he foregrounded his understanding of artistic practices embedded in hybridity/cultural hybridity. This refined knowledge about hybridity led him to devise a Somatic, Hybrid, Dance, Pedagogic Method for traditional and contemporary dancers engaging in intercultural artistic practices.

Shambik’s appointment as the first postdoctoral research assistant at LSA is significant for him. He will investigate, along with Prof Sue Miller and Dr Mitul Sengupta, a hybrid, dialogical interaction between Cuban-Charanga music, traditional Kathak and Jazz dance. The insights emerging from this hybrid, interdisciplinary engagement will inform creative ways to broaden and contribute to the existing curriculum of intercultural music and dance pedagogy, performance and practice.