The Academy recently hosted an official sneak peek at the coming festival program, led by Executive Director Shauna Quill and Chief Artistic Director Nate Bachhuber. Both administrators began their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

In a display of grace and innovation, Yale Ballet Company’s “Timeless” captured the audience’s attention at the Crescent Underground at 6 p.m. this past Saturday. The event, a tapestry of neoclassical ...

Ashwini Ramaswamy, whose specialty is Indian classical dance, works with two dancers from other traditions in “Let the Crows Come.” By Gia Kourlas Ashwini Ramaswamy has dancing in her blood. Much of ...

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 ...

Whether it’s lyrical movements, classical Indian style or a hip-hop take on the wildly popular Bollywood genre, dance is, without a doubt, one of the great visual icons of India. “I think dance is ...

The two Singapore-based brothers did not want to rely on influencers for this dance The brothers reimagined the song through classical movement — respecting, not replicating, two very different worlds ...