NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Nritya Katha – ‘Dance stories for children,’ published by The National Book Trust of India has nine stories about nine different Indian dance forms. In each story, a child ...

In 2013, several of Smitha Krishnan’s friends reached out, asking if she was available to teach Mohiniyattam — a form of classical Indian dance originating from the southern state of Kerala — to them ...

(RNS) — Throughout the United States, South Asian Americans young and old have come out to dance garba, the folk dance that began as a devotional form of worship and has now become a cultural ...

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 ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Visitors to Cheyenne Frontier Days won't likely forget American Indian dancer Harvey Spoonhunter, or the colorful statue he posed for at the gate to Frontier Park. Spoonhunter, ...

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 A ...

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 ...

CULTURE. HERE’S CRISTIANA RAMOS. COSTUMES. JEWELRY. MAKEUP AND MOVEMENT. EACH STYLE DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER. AND. MOHINIYATTAM. LOTS OF CURVES AND GRACE. THERE’S A LOT OF INTERNAL MOVEMENT THAT’S ...

Theater for the New City will present its 50th annual Thunderbird American Indian Dancers Pow Wow and Dance Concert from January 10 to 19, 2025. There will be dances, stories and traditional music ...

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 ...

Vijayashree Venkatraman first moved to Texas from India in 1990. She and her husband Venkatraman Subramanian, a Carnatic vocalist and music teacher, were both passionate about the arts and looking for ...