Before her students arrived at the bright and airy dance studio called Kala Vandanam in St. Paul's St. Anthony Park neighborhood, Suchitra Sairam reflected about her unusual journey from dancer to ...

Emerging from Tamil Nadu, Bharatanatyam is a revered Indian dance form with over two millennia of history. Notable for its hand gestures, rhythmic footwork, and graceful movements, the dance offers ...

If you love to dance, India is the place to be. The country is home to some of the world's oldest dance forms, including folk dances like Bhangra, and classic styles like Odissi and Kathak. Each dance ...

The pandemic has shown us that learning a new art form does not require the physical presence of a teacher. Almost all the classes had moved online to continue with the lessons. But even before that, ...

Here comes an app to help enthusiasts learn dance at home and help improve the classroom experience of beginners. Well-known dancer Ananda Shankar Jayant has created the dance practice app called ...

Love poetry comes to life with a full-length Bharatanatyam duet featuring Canadian dancers Hari Krishnan and Srividya Natarajan. Bharatanatyam is a classical Indian dance form and considered to be a ...

The floors shine in Sairam’s St. Paul dance studio. In order to reach it, she has to descend a narrow stairway into a brightly-painted basement. It’s perfect studio space, Sairam said. She and her ...

When Arthy Ahmed launched her Bharatanatyam class in Dhaka, many in the classical dance circuit saw it as a side project at best, and a waste of time at worst. "They told me, don't spend your energy ...

Ranee Ramaswamy believes her oldest daughter was put upon the planet to dance. "We all talk about previous births and reincarnation," says Ramaswamy. When it came to her eldest, Aparna Ramaswamy, she ...

After consecutive years of weaving imaginative thematic flights, the 30th Natya Kala Conference, with Shanta Dhananjayan as Convenor, anchored the concerns once again to the basics of training to ...