Abhinaya Dance Company will present a new 80-minute Bharatanatyam work exploring ritual and cultural memory through the South ...
Recently, at the Joyce Theatre, I attended a war. The war was a dance, “Gigenis: The Generation of the Earth,” directed by the British dancer and choreographer Akram Khan, loosely inspired by the ...
On Sept. 27 and 28, Harvard’s Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and MIT Heritage Arts of South Asia (MITHAS) hosted Intersections, a two-day conference centered on traditional Indian ...
Radhika Merchant celebrated Ganpati Bappa with a mesmerising classical dance at Antilia, looking ethereal in a custom pink Kanjeevaram by Manish Malhotra.
Bharatanatyam, the oldest classical dance form, was originated in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Bharatanatyam is a blend of bhava, raga and tala, and was originally a temple dance performed by ...
At the age of 11 years, when most children are afraid to even think of stepping on the stage, Sreya PR made her arangetram, the debut onstage performance of a student of Indian classical dance and ...
Indian classical dance is an art that is in tradition for a long. The origin of Indian classical dance traces back to “Natya Shastra” .It is a Sanskrit text. History says that the first text of this ...
One of my earliest memories of classical dance was watching Mikhail Baryshnikov in “White Nights” brazenly win a bet with 11 consecutive pirouettes. The raw beauty and heroism of the moment stayed ...