As we celebrate International Dance Day (April 29), Shinjini Maharaj, a Kathak dancer and the granddaughter of the late Pt Birju Maharaj, shares her thoughts on preserving her family's nine-generation ...

Each ‘style’ (as in ‘Bharatanatyam’ and ‘Kathak’ featured in BBC Young Dancer) has its demanding, characteristic physical vocabulary and repertoire to express this. But all share a common, ...

One of the most major classical dances of North India is Kathak. The word" Kathak” signifies to tell a story. The story goes like this when in the olden days when the patronage transformed from the ...

Learning a traditional dance form is quite task, but what would you call learning something that is even more ancient than your traditional dance form? As people do not know the history of Kathak and ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Like most classical forms of performing arts in India, Kathak - a ...

Prof Ranjana Srivastava, Former Dean Faculty of Performing Arts (FPA), BHU Varanasi, India and Head of Dance Department, FPA, shared with HT Lifestyle, some unknown facts about this famous dance form.

“My job as a nurse is taking up too much of my time. There is very little time left for my dance after the relentless schedule I follow as a nurse. Then I have responsibilities to my own parents and ...

A remarkable journey of discovery, reading like a mystery novel on the trail of a still living temple tradition, fills the opening chapters of Shovana Narayan and Geetika Kalha’s Kathak Lok. Their ...

Making an art form thrive in a foreign land is challenging. It is further demanding to keep it up to the original standards without diluting it. However, for Pali Chandra who has been performing and ...

Passions run high when discussions on Kathak in films ensue. Popular perception from traditionalists usually seem to suggest that Kathaks should refrain from becoming “populists” for that is what ...

The half-turned body moved gracefully around, the hand replicated the sensuality of Krishna writing with cool sandal paste on the chest of Radha, in the background the sound of Kuru Yadu Nandan (from ...