The joy of Vimala Menon’s Padma Shri award win lingers at her home in Thiruvananthapuram as she sits down with us for a chat.

From the very start, in all Indian dance forms, especially the classical, seemingly micro-positions of the fingers called ...

From Bharatanatyam in Tamil Nadu to Kathakali in Kerala, explore how each dance reflects culture, spirituality, and storytelling across India.

Scientists are teaching robots the classical Indian dance Bharatanatyam to improve how machines move. (Image: UMBC) US scientists teach robots Bharatanatyam to improve machine movement. UMBC team uses ...

Robots learning Bharatanatyam sounds like an unexpected fusion. But researchers University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) are making this true, using the 2,000-year-old dance form to teach ...

Photos appearing to show a hole and discoloration on President Donald Trump's hand have attracted scrutiny on social media as commentators speculate about his health. Writing on X, people shared ...

Movement can communicate as powerfully as speech. A shift of the wrist, a traced arc of the fingers, or a held pose can express emotion, rhythm, or meaning. Classical dance traditions have refined ...

Ashwathi Menon, co-captain of UMBC's Indian fusion dance team, helps demo some of the technology in the lab. Here, she demonstrates the Katakamukha mudra as a robotic hand mimics her gesture. Parthan ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have extracted the building blocks of precise hand gestures used in the classical Indian dance form Bharatanatyam—and found a richer ...

Images of President Donald Trump's hand, appearing to be covered in a patch of makeup, have gone viral over the past few days, after similar images of his hand were captured and circulated last month.

Here’s what to know about symptoms and treatment of the infection. By Simar Bajaj Every summer and into fall, hand, foot and mouth disease makes the rounds in schools, playgrounds and day cares. But ...