Discover why Indian classical and folk dancers are built different! In this video, we explore the unique physical conditioning, flexibility, stamina, and strength required for traditional Indian dance ...

Smitha Paily has been teaching Indian dance at her Natya Kendra Dance Academy for 10 years. Both Indian and non-Indian dancers are attracted to the classes. Traditional Indian dance aims to tell ...

Dressed in a brilliant peacock-blue sari, Kamala Lakshmi Narayanan is surrounded by a sea of reds, pinks, greens, oranges and golds in the costumes worn by her students as she leads them through ...

Dancers/choreographers Sheetal Gandhi, Hari Krishnan, Parul Shah and Kuldeep Singh present recent works that speak to contemporary issues, each pulling from their own unique interpretation of—or ...

Five dancers who started their careers in the 1940s redefined dance in the United States, becoming some of the first American prima ballerinas in the world's top companies, from the Ballets Russes to ...

Unlike other ethnic dance troupes, the Minneapolis-based Ragamala Music and Dance Theatre is trying to do more than keep the 2,000-year-old tradition of Indian dance alive. They take the basic ...

In an ironic bi-lingual pun, the title of the evening-length performance that the Lakota Sioux Indian Dance Theatre will present in Anchorage is the same as the instructions for what you need to do in ...

The Indian American Student Association sold out its annual cultural show performance at Hill Auditorium Friday night, drawing about 4,000 students, faculty, staff and parents who came to watch 200 ...

It’s a bitterly cold Tuesday night, and the Georgia Saazish dance team is running formations in the lobby of the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. The lighting is dim, the glass ...

Texas-based Odissi Dance Company hosts a festival of classical Indian dance June 25 at the Cubberley Theater. Courtesy Debojyoti Dhar/Odissi Dance Company. On June 25, shimmering silk costumes, bright ...

A celebration of American Indian dance and culture is headed to New York City's most historic working farm as the Queens County Farm Museum and The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers present Harvest ...