UNESCO declared it an intangible cultural heritage in 2003, noting that it takes dancers "years of intensive training" to ...

Aswathi is a promising young dancer with a presence and maturity beyond her age. A strong orchestra backed her — Udaya Sankar Lal (nattuvangam), Binu Venugopal (vocal), P.K. Sivaprasad (mridangam) and ...

Khmer classical dance has endured over a millennium in Cambodia, surviving even the brutality and mass killings of the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. But today, dancing masters worry about waning ...

Sudha Chandran, acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancer and actor, was seen deeply moved while offering prayers to Maa Kali during a ...

Cambodian master classical dancer Penh Yom walks between her teenage students, painstakingly adjusting a bent-back finger ...

Bharatanatyam dancer Mythili Prakash doesn’t just dance to dance; she dances to explore the questions that consume her. In her latest piece, “Mythili Prakash — She’s Auspicious,” the second-generation ...

When people think about dance, they often think about ballet, jazz and ballroom. San Anselmo dancer Barbara Framm wants to add Indian classical dance to the list. A longtime performer, Framm shares ...

For National Award–winning actor Rituparna Sengupta, returning to the classical stage is never a casual act, it is an act of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Sahomi Tachibana, a Japanese American master teacher and performer of Nihonbuyo (traditional Japanese dance) lives in Portland. Tachibana just turned 100 in April. The legacy she ...

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The year on the way out (2025) saw Madhya Pradesh script a new Guinness Book of World Record with a ...