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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
When Sarina Sallapudi was assigned to dance the role of a young Krishna in an upcoming performance of Indian classical dance by the SaiNrityalaya School of Dance, about the only thing the 9-year-old ...
LITTLETON — For dancers of Bharatanatyam — a South Indian classical dance style — an “arangetram” is the culmination of years, often more than a decade, of practice. As instructor Manasa Jayanthi ...
The Conservatory is brimming with an extraordinary array of instructional arts and cultural programs which we are eager to share with the community. Instruction is available throughout the year for ...
While traditional Indian dance forms, especially classical, takes years of formal training to master, is rooted in dramatic/dance theory and text and is a vast subject on its own with very specific ...
At Children’s Manor Montessori School in Germantown where Praneetha Akula was teaching and performing, a little girl got to see herself in her teacher. The pre-K student announced that she knew how to ...