When she was 13, Mariamal dreamed of learning Bharatanatyam. However, she could not pursue dance as classes were unaffordable. Now 50, Mariamal is finally living her dream, learning Bharatanatyam at ...

A 32-year-old Chennai-based Bharatanatyam teacher Chezhiyal Neelakesi, brings the dance form to the underprivileged communities in India’s largest resettlement site of Kannagi Nagar. The divides of ...

The floors shine in Sairam’s St. Paul dance studio. In order to reach it, she has to descend a narrow stairway into a brightly-painted basement. It’s perfect studio space, Sairam said. She and her ...

An Indian dancer specialised in the art of traditional Bharata natyam dance will be giving a workshop this month. Ruta Kambli will give workshops to dancers who want to learn authentic Indian dance.

When I was twelve, every Tuesday night at 7 p.m. I would stand in ballet shoes on cracked wooden floorboards. Ms. Connie would pull her arms in and push them out from her chest, her back curving and ...

When he mixed hot tar for a highway project in the 1980s in Kuala Lumpur, he thought of various mudras. When he collected latex from rubber trees, he dreamed of becoming a dancer. For this young ...

The life of a teenager, especially a closeted one, is filled with confusion – dance was one thing that always made sense. "Every little brown girl does at least a bit of traditional dancing," I say to ...