Every artist confronts her past, and, in the case of the Indian dancer Bijayini Satpathy, that past is both a country and a colonial legacy. Satpathy performs Odissi, a dance style from the eastern ...

SF Adavu, a San Francisco collective, launches TaKaDhiMi, a joyful new showcase for Bharatanatyam and classical Indian dance.

When a teenaged Kamal Singh caught the Bollywood movie Any Body Can Dance back in 2016, he was mesmerised and a bit perplexed. Having grown up in a traditional Sikh family where dancing automatically ...

Recently, New York City’s Drive East Festival showcased accomplished performers of classical Indian dance and music. For many observers, this was an unprecedented opportunity to see just how uniquely ...

At 21, when most young people are tentatively sketching out their futures, Dhvani Kothari Dalmia had already decided to reimagine the ballet scene of India. Fresh out of training in Croatia and ...

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 ...

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INDIAN music is a very ancient art and has a three-thousand-year-old tradition behind it. This represents perhaps the longest unbroken record of any cultural tradition we know. Countries like China ...

The longest Indian classical dance marathon relay is 24 hr, 9 min, 6 sec and was achieved by Department of Culture, Government of Madhya Pradesh (India) during Khajuraho Dance Festival in Khajuraho, ...

Elton John may not be the typical sort of music playing in a classical Indian dance or ballet performance, but two dance companies are fusing numerous styles and cultures during a performance that ...