Dancer-choreographer Leela Samson unpacks histories and movements that have brought us to the present moment in Bharatnatyam, ...

When watching Indian classical dance, there's a lot going on: the folding and unfolding of the dancers' pleated costumes, their eyes moving back and forth between thick black eyeliner, their hands ...

Every artist confronts her past, and, in the case of the Indian dancer Bijayini Satpathy, that past is both a country and a colonial legacy. Satpathy performs Odissi, a dance style from the eastern ...

Wesleyan’s Navaratri Festival is one of the longest-running performance programs at the Center for the Arts (CFA), stretching back almost 50 years. The University’s 49th anniversary festival will ...

Leaping about onstage in purple and blue silks, Anika Kavalla, of Abington, danced to the demanding tempo of Hindu music for almost three hours. Last October, the 16 year old debuted before 200 guests ...

Pratik Vyas and his friends hit the dance floor early; they carried a roll of bandaging tape for the long night that lay ahead. For Navratri, an annual Hindu dance festival celebrating the triumph of ...

BLOOMINGTON — Bharatanatyam, one of the oldest classical dance traditions of India, will be presented during a public performance Sunday at the Hindu Temple of Bloomington-Normal. "This is a ...

HUNTSVILLE, AL -- She will be wearing a bindi, the decorative forehead dot that can signify devotion to a Hindu deity, and stepping through the intricacies of the stories of Hindu gods, but on ...