India is famous for its rich cultural heritage and classical dance forms are one of its most treasured artistic traditions.
Every artist confronts her past, and, in the case of the Indian dancer Bijayini Satpathy, that past is both a country and a colonial legacy. Satpathy performs Odissi, a dance style from the eastern ...
At Children’s Manor Montessori School in Germantown where Praneetha Akula was teaching and performing, a little girl got to see herself in her teacher. The pre-K student announced that she knew how to ...
A rabbi uses a traditional Indian dance form to retell the Passover story from Pharaoh’s perspective
“Pharaoh,” written by Rabbi Misha Shulman of The New Shul, stars Kathakali master Kalamandalam John. (New York Jewish Week) — Walking tall across the black stage of the East Village’s Theater for the ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - We’re learning about an ancient Indian classical dance called Odissi. Odissi originates from the state of Odisha in eastern India, teaching us is Upasana Sing Nayak a dance ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The choreographer Akram Khan’s “Gigenis,” based loosely on a character in the Mahabharata, represents a kind of homecoming for him. By Marina Harss A ...
Recently, at the Joyce Theatre, I attended a war. The war was a dance, “Gigenis: The Generation of the Earth,” directed by the British dancer and choreographer Akram Khan, loosely inspired by the ...
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