Before her students arrived at the bright and airy dance studio called Kala Vandanam in St. Paul's St. Anthony Park neighborhood, Suchitra Sairam reflected about her unusual journey from dancer to ...

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Emerging from Tamil Nadu, Bharatanatyam is a revered Indian dance form with over two millennia of history. Notable for its hand gestures, rhythmic footwork, and graceful movements, the dance offers ...

The first impression the word ‘belly dance’ brings to our mind would perhaps be that of a desert safari where dancers entertain the guests with sizzling steps and swaying hips moving in tandem with a ...

Liz Luke prepares for her arangetram, a debut for dancers performing the Indian dance Bharatanatyam. Her mother, Simily Luke, right, came to the United States with Liz’s father, Robinson Luke, in 2000 ...

Nikolina Nikoleski came to India when she was just a couple years shy of 30. The ballet dancer from Croatia — she’d trained at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen in Germany — had won a scholarship from the ...

Natya Anjali, a Bharatanatyam dance school, has been chosen from a selected few studios worldwide to perform at the prestigious Diwali Dance Fest at the popular Walt Disney World in Florida, USA from ...