Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leaping about onstage in purple and blue silks, Anika Kavalla, of Abington, danced to the demanding tempo of Hindu music for ...

Hyderabad's Bharatanatyam dancer Rajeswari Sainath receives the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi award for dance in 2024.

When watching Indian classical dance, there's a lot going on: the folding and unfolding of the dancers' pleated costumes, their eyes moving back and forth between thick black eyeliner, their hands ...

With the recent popularity of Bollywood films, many Americans have now become familiar with the captivating dances from Hindu and Indian culture. But the dancing, and costumes worn when performing the ...

When Ananth Udupa was 7 and growing up in Phoenix, he underwent a Hindu rite of passage for boys of higher castes called an Upanayana. The ceremony, which goes back millennia, in some ways delineates ...

KOCHI, India (Reuters) - A man in Kerala has become the first Muslim to receive a doctorate in a classical dance rooted in Hindu mythology which is traditionally the preserve of women. K.M. Abu, 47, ...