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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When my nephew informed me that I had been conferred the Padma Vibhushan, I was happy, and my thoughts went to my parents, my gurus and Kanchi mahaswami, says Padma Subrahmanyam. I feel honoured to be ...

They love to perform on well-lit stages before huge audiences. They enjoy being recognised and applauded. Yet, artistes often experience a sense of solitude as they yearn being in a space of their own ...

Bharatanatyam as a dance form in the post-revival years was popularised greatly by someone so famous that many parents named their daughters after her. She inspired girls from middle-class families to ...