AMHERST, N.Y. — An Amherst woman is sharing her passion for Indian classical dance by creating a new group. It's called Kala Seva Arts and Cultural Society. Bharatanatyam is a dance style Bharathy ...

Perrine Legoullon, a French national, has immersed herself in the Sattriya dance tradition of Assam over the past seven to ...

Rooted in Bhakti, the art form retains its spiritual core. Rooted in the Bhakti movement initiated by Mahapurush Srimanta Sankardeva in the 15th-16th century, Sattriya combines dance, drama, music and ...

Hands move constantly during conversation. They signal emotion, stress a point, and form full languages such as American Sign Language. Behind this everyday motion lies a complex challenge. Each human ...

A.R. Rahman urges building a global ecosystem to sustain Indian classical music and dance through innovation, patronage, and ...

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 ...

Silambam company members as “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” characters Lysander and Hermia The inside of Dancescape Studio in Pearland looks like the usual place where dance lessons are given. Wooden ...

When Sarina Sallapudi was assigned to dance the role of a young Krishna in an upcoming performance of Indian classical dance by the SaiNrityalaya School of Dance, about the only thing the 9-year-old ...

Saturday, April 29 is World Dance Day. And fittingly, that holiday falls on day two of the ninth annual American Natya Festival. Organized by St. Louis-based Soorya Performing Arts, this weekend’s ...

Over the past 10 years, the South Asian population in the Puget Sound region has nearly tripled. Most people who have seen the show Outsourced or have had an Indian-accented technician solve their ...

Urmila Satyanarayanan receives the Nritya Kalanidhi award at Chennai's 19th Dance Festival, celebrating her contributions to ...