LITTLETON — For dancers of Bharatanatyam — a South Indian classical dance style — an “arangetram” is the culmination of years, often more than a decade, of practice. As instructor Manasa Jayanthi ...

Exponents from various classical dance forms debated on the tradition versus innovation conundrum at a recent seminar in ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The brilliant classical dancer, choreographer and actress Kumari Kamala passed away on November 24 in ...

Honoured by King Charles III, Kuchipudi dancer Arunima Kumar is using classical art to bridge cultures and heal communities ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have extracted the building blocks of precise hand ...

Raeva Mulloth, daughter of teacher Sujata Nair-Mulloth, will be one of the performers on May 4 at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center. Some of the dance students who will take part in the May 4 ...

With their painstaking, precise movements, the women look like Hindu statues of goddesses come to life. Barefoot and clad in yoga gear and flowery, flowing pants, five women and one child assemble in ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook LSA junior Mithra Arun shares her culture through Bharatanatyam dance in her showcase "One Step ...

The Trust, which completes 10 years, has sought to empower the next generation of artistes, particularly through its annual ...

At Children’s Manor Montessori School in Germantown where Praneetha Akula was teaching and performing, a little girl got to see herself in her teacher. The pre-K student announced that she knew how to ...

In 2013, several of Smitha Krishnan’s friends reached out, asking if she was available to teach Mohiniyattam — a form of classical Indian dance originating from the southern state of Kerala — to them ...

The work suggests that traditional classical dance encodes more refined motion patterns than everyday actions. The findings ...