Bharatanatyam
Retaining the authentic flavours of Indian dance away from home
How can Bharatanatyam live and breathe in a place where the cultural ecology is so different?
Following the footsteps
Dancer Sharanya Chandran celebrates love and togetherness through her recent Bharatanatyam performance.
Travails of Lankan Tamils portrayed well
Swetha Pararajasingam’s show leaves audience teary-eyed.
A tale of two cities
A panel of cultural experts investigates the similarities between Madras and Mumbai through art and culture.
‘Escaping suppression not the solution’
A trained Western ballet and Bharatanatyam dancer, the writer is equally obsessed with making dance and love as central themes in many of his plays.
Aloha Hawaii!!
Highly recommend the Kauai hindu monastery for its serenity, the Kayak & hike to secret falls.
Dance show ‘Veerbala’ depicts India’s warrior women alongside desh-bhakti
Usha RK got together four young dancers who presented portraits of India’s warrior women in a show titled ‘Veerbala’.
Artists’ take
Most Carnatic music practitioners are quite vocal about their political choices on social media.
Krishna Rao & Chandra leave behind a rich legacy of dance scholarship and practice
Born in December 1912, Krishna Rao took to dance seriously in 1939 and married U.K. Chandrabhaga Devi in February 1941.
Her dance of life
Sonal was the youngest recipient of Padma Bhushan in 1992 and in 2003, she became the first Indian woman dancer to be awarded Padma Vibhushan.