India is famous for its rich cultural heritage and classical dance forms are one of its most treasured artistic traditions. The dance forms are interesting due to a combination of music, storytelling, ...

Shovana Narayan has gracefully balanced a demanding bureaucratic career with her celebrated roles as a Kathak exponent and ...

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 ...

The history of dance can be categorised into three main time divisions: (i)The evidence of dance forms found in the cave paintings, engravings, and sculptures of the Indus Valley Civilisation and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The choreographer Akram Khan’s “Gigenis,” based loosely on a character in the Mahabharata, represents a kind of homecoming for him. By Marina Harss ...

Since the age of 4, Radha Pandya, 17, of Edison, has been perfecting a 3,000-year-old Indian dance to continue the legacy of her culture and ensure it is passed down for generations to come. The dance ...

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 ...

Learn about the classical dances of India and the states they belong to. Explore their history, features, significance and interesting facts. India is famous for its rich cultural heritage and ...