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

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 ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- The Marcus Performing Arts Center is hosting a weeklong residency with Nrityagram, an acclaimed Indian dance company, to showcase Odissi, one of the world's oldest dance styles.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - We’re learning about an ancient Indian classical dance called Odissi. Odissi originates from the state of Odisha in eastern India, teaching us is Upasana Sing Nayak a dance ...

During the academic school year, Devika Gates can often be found in a classroom at Spokane Falls Community College teaching chemistry. When school's not in session, however, she trades the chem lab ...

Shruti Parthasarathy ’24 has been participating in the ancient Indian dance and art form of Bharatnatyam since she was five years old. Over the last three years, she has combined her love for dance ...

A group of nearly 250 performers took the stage Saturday for one of the largest student organization-run events at the University of Missouri, India Nite. The Cultural Association of India held its ...

With their painstaking, precise movements, the women look like Hindu statues of goddesses come to life. Barefoot and clad in yoga gear and flowery, flowing pants, five women and one child assemble in ...

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 ...

With the pandemic, Nrityagram, near Bangalore, has become a more self-contained version of itself: a refuge, with a single-minded focus on classical Indian dance. The grounds of Nrityagram include ...

Mr. Maharaj choreographed for Bollywood, but was chiefly known for carrying the torch of Kathak, one of India’s major dance traditions. By Alastair Macaulay Birju Maharaj, who was revered in India as ...