April 29 is celebrated as International Dance Day. On this occasion, DH spoke with women who, like the author, began learning Indian classical dance like Odissi and Bharatnatyam later in life, to ...

92NY Harkness Dance Center will present What Flows Between Us: A Festival of India's Classical Arts in Cross-Cultural Dialogue, a day-long immersion into the depth, rigor, and expansive imagination of ...

Classical dance isn’t mere entertainment but a sadhana or practice, resonating with the spirit of Diwali and other festivals in India. In the celebrations of Deepawali, I was watching recently a ...

Visakhapatnam: Many working women are seeking meaningful ways to unwind in today's fast-paced world. In Vizag, for instance, classical dance has emerged as a powerful stress management tool, combining ...

Where you are when you don’t know where you are is one of the most precious spots offered by improvisation. It is a place from which more directions are possible than anywhere else. Nancy Stark Smith, ...

Indian classical dance has truly become international, thrilling people and fans well outside Indian waters. Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi are no longer just India's national heritage; they've become a ...

His torso gleaming with sweat, 6-foot-2 Jones Welsh is surprisingly agile as he hurls himself around the floor to the techno sounds of Austrian duo Kruder & Dorfmeister. He does a one-armed cartwheel ...

In the world of classical dance, men are mostly preferred in the role of a teacher. For instance, the great Vempati Chinna Satyam, Kelucharan Mohapatra or Pandit Birju Maharaj, despite being great ...

A composer writes the notes; musicians play the notes. That's the current arrangement in the world of classical music, but it wasn't always so. Bach, Beethoven and Mozart were great composers, but ...

Leslie Parker: “I think of Black Dance Improvisation as a way of approaching a dance aesthetic that gives more space for the relevance of Black and brown bodies and the histories that they bring into ...

If you are visiting Bengaluru and want to see a classical music or dance performance, go to ADA Rangamandira theatre and (across the road from it) Ravindra Kalakshetra. Dance companies like this ...