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 ...

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 ...

Dressed in a brilliant peacock-blue sari, Kamala Lakshmi Narayanan is surrounded by a sea of reds, pinks, greens, oranges and golds in the costumes worn by her students as she leads them through ...

A Bharatanatyam dance school — exclusively for members of the transgender community — was opened in Chennai recently. Classes are held every Sunday, and dance enthusiasts can learn the art form free ...

A 32-year-old Chennai-based Bharatanatyam teacher Chezhiyal Neelakesi, brings the dance form to the underprivileged communities in India’s largest resettlement site of Kannagi Nagar. The divides of ...

During the academic school year, Devika Gates can often be found in a classroom at Spokane Falls Community College teaching chemistry. When school's not in session, however, she trades the chem lab ...