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 ...
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 ...
India is famous for its rich cultural heritage and classical dance forms are one of its most treasured artistic traditions.
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 ...
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 ...
Recently, at the Joyce Theatre, I attended a war. The war was a dance, “Gigenis: The Generation of the Earth,” directed by the British dancer and choreographer Akram Khan, loosely inspired by the ...
The Mudra Dance Festival, held annually at NCPA around World Dance Day, is a thematic celebration of Indian classical dance. While recent editions explored Aharya—the visual aspects of costume and ...
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 ...
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