Such devadasis lived not only in the Tamil country but also on the edges of the Madras Presidency in the Telugu, Kannada and ...

Leela Samson's latest book - Dance of Freedom - is a quick read at just 104 pages. (Images via Instagram / Spandan and Aleph Book Company) "Dance whichever way you like... and show the world why you ...

Bala Devi Chandrashekar comes from a family steeped in scholarship and storytelling, and that lineage shows in the way she approaches Bharatanatyam. A dancer and researcher at heart, she is known for ...

A 13-year-old Chinese girl scripted history when she performed Bharatanatyam "Arangetram" in China, a landmark in the journey of the ancient Indian dance form that is gaining popularity in the ...

Lei made her solo dance debut here on Sunday in front of the celebrated Bharatanatyam dancer Leela Samson, Indian diplomats and a large audience of Chinese fans.

George Arundale, a theosophist and disciple of Annie Besant, said: ‘We educate the mind, after a fashion, at the expense of the physical body, which is bad enough, but far worse is our almost total ...

Bharatanatyam is no more a regional pride, it has become global, as popular as Yoga in the classical dance genre. What got democratised after the disenfranchisement of the matriarchal hereditary ...

Lei Muzi's dedication to Bharatanatyam began in 2014. A 13-year-old girl has become the first Chinese performer to complete the Bharatanatyam "Arangetram" in the country. Lei Muzi began her ...

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Chinese twins Jin Yanshu and Jin Yanai presented their Bharatanatyam Arangetram in Beijing before a packed audience. The recital underscored how Indian classical dance is deepening cultural ties ...