Every dance tells a story and every hand gesture has meaning, according to Anika Jagasia. Jagasia, 16, who recently performed a solo dance recital of classical Indian dances at the Radnor Middle ...

Lakshmi Pramoda Bapatla, a 16 year old junior at John Jay Senior High School, East Fishkill, New York mesmerized the audience at her Kuchipudi Rangapravesam (Indian Classical Dance Graduation) with an ...

Classical Indian dance schools that teach several styles of dance are found throughout New Jersey Recitals (including debut performances) often run more than two hours and encompass a wide range of ...

With their painstaking, precise movements, the women look like Hindu statues of goddesses come to life. Barefoot and clad in yoga gear and flowery, flowing pants, five women and one child assemble in ...

Parvatha Chidambaram has been dancing the ancient court and temple dance of her hometown of Chennai in southern India since she was 7 years old. When she immigrated to Rochester in 1999, she brought ...

AMHERST, N.Y. — An Amherst woman is sharing her passion for Indian classical dance by creating a new group. It's called Kala Seva Arts and Cultural Society. Bharatanatyam is a dance style Bharathy ...

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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 ...