LITTLETON — For dancers of Bharatanatyam — a South Indian classical dance style — an “arangetram” is the culmination of years, often more than a decade, of practice. As instructor Manasa Jayanthi ...

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 ...

The Bharatanatyam maestro reflects on her journey, the power of storytelling through dance, and her unwavering commitment to the arts Vidushi (Padmashri) Geeta Chandran, 62, is a distinguished dance ...

Bala Devi Chandrashekar comes from a family steeped in scholarship and storytelling, and that lineage shows in the way she ...

As an immigrant from India, I’m always attracted to art forms that remind me of the country I grew up in. One that I’ve found in Philadelphia is Usiloquy Dance Design, a contemporary dance company ...

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 ...

Thaaragai Aarathana, a trained Bharatanatyam dancer and certified diver, performed the classical dance beneath the sea, ...

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 Sarasota Opera House stage regularly features historic works of opera, ballet and music. But, If institutional memory serves, it had never before been the venue for a performance of the ancient ...

HONG KONG, July 30, 2014 - Bharatanatyam is a classical Indian dance form that originated in the temples of Tamil Nadu, a southern province of India. This dance form denotes various 19th- 20th-century ...