Celebrating the power of the divine feminine, Odissi dancer Dona Ganguly choreographed Rupam Dehi, Jayam Dehi, a dance and ...

The colours are diffused, the shots are blurred, and the rumble of a train often punctuates the two-hour recording. Yet what the home video captures is priceless – a filmed document of the early days ...

Naka said Odissi is her life. She also spoke about her early doubts. "I'm Japanese, and my eyes are too small to express Abhinaya," she said. She added that she has since accepted who she is.

Odissi dance performed at Gurgaon Utsav. GURUGRAM: Since Epicentre was put out to pasture (temporarily, hopefully), it isn’t that Gurgaonites have been starved of cultural nourishment. The Gurgaon ...

It is only half in jest that Kumkum Mohanty rues the absence of an equivalent of the Indian Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code in classical dance. “All this jumping around to excite and impress ...

Pt. Gopal Chandra Panda, the SNA awardee musician and a much respected guru from Odishadevoted his entire life studying the old treatise and codifying scientifically the grammatical frameworkof Odissi ...

The recent International Odissi Dance Festival was a celebration of Guru Surendra Nath Jena’s unique style of Odissi. With a touch of the devotional element and inspired by the sculptural architecture ...

BHUBANESWAR: The sound of Odissi music greets visitors as they step into the regional centre of the Lalit Kala Akademi in Bhubaneswar. Soft strains from recordings by eminent gurus float through the ...

It’s an irony that Lord Nataraj, the creator of dance, is male while his creation has been the bastion of the female. Similarly, although the beauty and popularity of the classical dance style of ...

MUMBAI: Odissi exponent Shubhada Varadkar’s phone has not stopped ringing since Wednesday evening when the Sangeet Natak Akademi (SNA) announced its latest awardees. However, despite cross-continental ...