Bharatanatyam’s survival was never guaranteed. We trace how social stigma, reform movements, and cultural politics pushed the ...

The floors shine in Sairam’s St. Paul dance studio. In order to reach it, she has to descend a narrow stairway into a brightly-painted basement. It’s perfect studio space, Sairam said. She and her ...

A landmark cultural event took place on February 6, 2026, at the Boy Scout Theater in Hawally, Kuwait, with the staging of Nagamandala, a dance drama inspired by the acclaimed Kannada play by Girish ...

This coming weekend, Indian dance enthusiast Gaitrie Devi (Devi Bollywood Dance) will be hosting a special guest who will be performing and guiding instructional workshops on Bharata Natyam (South ...

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 ...

When Troy High School junior Sharanya Swaminathan was 4 years old, her mom would play nursery rhymes, and Sharanya would immediately start moving. Her mom took notice and put Sharanya in a group class ...

Bharatanatyam as a dance form in the post-revival years was popularised greatly by someone so famous that many parents named their daughters after her. She inspired girls from middle-class families to ...

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