PLANO, Texas — At Kathak Rhythms, a dance studio in Plano, every step the women are taking is a form of self-care. “It's definitely given me a lot of confidence and confidence in my mental stamina and ...

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Chitresh Das, a renowned practitioner and teacher of the kathak form of Indian classical dance, died Sunday in Marin County. He was 70. The San Francisco-based Chhandam School of Kathak, which Das ...

With 15 pounds of bells on his ankles and sweat in his silver hair, Birju Maharaj stamps out ever more complex rhythms. Sometimes they sound uncannily like birds singing or rain falling. But always, ...

It is a drizzly Tuesday afternoon in February, and Chitresh Das is carrying a large suitcase of tablas while darting up the steps of the Cultural Integration Fellowship, a brick building on the corner ...

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I was a young student when Pandit Durga Lal passed away in 1990. He was my guru and a genius exponent of the Kathak form. The void he left was very heavy. It was then when I decided to do something to ...

It's 2pm on an October afternoon. Leading Kathak expert Padma Shri Shovana Narayan is on stage at the British Council New Delhi, teaching a masterclass on the classical dance to a bunch of children ...

Kataki, hails from the Indian city of Calcutta and has been teaching students in the UAE the Lucknowi gharana of Kathak for the last 26 years. Even though, Dubai boasts of various dance teachers and ...

FOR Shika Harrypaul, a Grade 6 teacher at Crawford International and a lifelong student of Kathak, the vision is clear: Indian classical dance should not only be taught, it should be valued as ...