NEW YORK — One of the strongest attractions of the free Battery Dance Festival is its setting at the bottom tip of Manhattan, with a glorious sunset backdrop of water, sky and the Statue of Liberty.

Actor-dancer Prachee Shah Paandya, a Guinness World Record holder and Kathak ambassador, reflects on how the classical art ...

The Kathak dancer’s video has prompted various kinds of responses, with many praising her.

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Pandit Chitresh Das, who died at 70 in Marin County on Sunday, Jan. 4, of an aortic dissection, was not the only distinguished classical Indian dancer to make a home in the Bay Area, but thanks to his ...

"Romeo and Juliet" may have originated as a play, but for ballet fans, Shakespeare's romantic tragedy has become synonymous with a passionate score by Sergei Prokofiev, first adapted in 1955 by ...

Chitresh Das, a renowned practitioner and teacher of the kathak form of Indian classical dance, died Sunday in Marin County. He was 70. The San Francisco-based Chhandam School of Kathak, which Das ...

Chitresh Das, a mesmerizing Kolkata-born performer of the North Indian classical Indian dance form Kathak and a great educator in the form throughout the Bay Area and the United States, died of an ...

Kathak is one of the eight classical forms of Indian dance. It is comprised of powerful movement and technique, using percussive footwork and rhythms rooted in the Indian classical music system, ...

In the vibrant world of Indian classical dance, Shivani Varma stands as both a torchbearer and a trailblazer. A distinguished disciple of the legendary Pt. Birju Maharaj and Guru Shovana Narayan, she ...

The classical Indian dance of Kathak originated in Northern India but its popularity is thriving in and around London with hundreds of young British Asians - and even many students from other ...