International Dance Day is celebrated every year on April 29 to honour the beauty, diversity, and global impact of dance. As a country rich in cultural heritage, India is home to a vast array of ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have extracted the building blocks of precise hand ...

A Potomac, MD dance studio teaches Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance form. Step into the world of Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance form that has been nurtured and celebrated for centuries ...

Whether it’s lyrical movements, classical Indian style or a hip-hop take on the wildly popular Bollywood genre, dance is, without a doubt, one of the great visual icons of India. “I think dance is ...

Leela Samson's latest book - Dance of Freedom - is a quick read at just 104 pages. (Images via Instagram / Spandan and Aleph Book Company) "Dance whichever way you like... and show the world why you ...

India s cultural tapestry is beautifully woven with diverse dance traditions that reflect the unique history, beliefs, and artistry of each region. Every state in India boasts distinct dance forms, ...

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 ...

In line with the National Education Policy’s requirement that education be rooted in the Indian ethos, art forms such as Indian classical music, dance, theatre, and visual arts have been included for ...

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 ...