One by one, 13 Buddhist monks wearing brightly colored silk costumes and wide-brimmed black hats, stepped onto the ...

Elephants have been a powerful symbol of wealth and power since ancient times. But how did the symbolic meanings of elephants ...

In 2000, she founded her eponymous dance school. In 2006, she completed her graduation in Science from Calcutta University, ...

Travel changes an artiste in quiet ways, and for French-Caribbean artiste David Walters, every city he visited has shaped the ...

Indian-born Enakshi Sinha is one of the leading dancers of Odissi, an Indian classical dance form, in North America. Her career in Indian classical dance spans 18 years and includes performances in ...

Jin Shanshan and her daughter Jessica Wu stage a mesmerizing dance performance on April 2 at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, in India's eastern state of West Bengal. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO ...

Jennifer Homans reviews Akram Khan’s dance piece “Gigenis: The Generation of the Earth,” which is loosely inspired by the Mahabharata and brings together exponents of Indian classical ...

All styles of Indian classical dance are vibrant, expressive, and spiritual. Contemporary classical dance forms evolved from the musical play or sangeet-nataka performed from the 12th to the 19th ...

Classical dance isn’t mere entertainment but a sadhana or practice, resonating with the spirit of Diwali and other festivals in India. In the celebrations of Deepawali, I was watching recently a ...

TASHKENT: Indian movies, classical dances, yoga, and the Hindi language have gained considerable prominence across Uzbekistan, leading many local Uzbek women—fr ...