When Troy High School junior Sharanya Swaminathan was 4 years old, her mom would play nursery rhymes, and Sharanya would immediately start moving. Her mom took notice and put Sharanya in a group class ...

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 ...

A Bharatanatyam dance school — exclusively for members of the transgender community — was opened in Chennai recently. Classes are held every Sunday, and dance enthusiasts can learn the art form free ...

Dressed in a brilliant peacock-blue sari, Kamala Lakshmi Narayanan is surrounded by a sea of reds, pinks, greens, oranges and golds in the costumes worn by her students as she leads them through ...

A 32-year-old Chennai-based Bharatanatyam teacher Chezhiyal Neelakesi, brings the dance form to the underprivileged communities in India’s largest resettlement site of Kannagi Nagar. The divides of ...

It is quite possible that a student of an Indian classical dance would go wrong with her lessons while refreshing them back home—alone. The result can lead fresh talents to stray into erroneous ...

CHENNAI: As a child, the weekend meant lazily laying back on the couch, munching away on the leftovers from the night before, while watching my favourite movie, '101 Dalmatians'. But to my ...