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 ...
NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Nritya Katha – ‘Dance stories for children,’ published by The National Book Trust of India has nine stories about nine different Indian dance forms. In each story, a child ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X By day, he’s a software engineer. Come evening, however, Kaladhar Bejjanki logs off his ...
It’s a Saturday, and the decisive, guiding beats of the dhol — a double-headed drum from India — and shouts of “hadippa” (a Punjabi word meaning “hooray”) reverberate through a Sandy dance studio. The ...
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 ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The choreographer Akram Khan’s “Gigenis,” based loosely on a character in the Mahabharata, represents a kind of homecoming for him. By Marina Harss A ...
“Pharaoh,” written by Rabbi Misha Shulman of The New Shul, stars Kathakali master Kalamandalam John. (New York Jewish Week) — Walking tall across the black stage of the East Village’s Theater for the ...