A team of researchers at Anna University in Chennai has accurately identified and categorized 108 foundational Bharatanatyam dance poses using advanced computational techniques. J. Jayanthi and P. U.

For the Ramaswamy family, Bharatanatyam dance is both lifeblood and business. For the Ramaswamy family, dance — specifically Bharatanatyam, a South Indian classical dance form — is both lifeblood and ...

Before her students arrived at the bright and airy dance studio called Kala Vandanam in St. Paul's St. Anthony Park neighborhood, Suchitra Sairam reflected about her unusual journey from dancer to ...

Ranee Ramaswamy believes her oldest daughter was put upon the planet to dance. "We all talk about previous births and reincarnation," says Ramaswamy. When it came to her eldest, Aparna Ramaswamy, she ...

A nine-day exhibition was recently held in honour of Bharatanatyam exponent Chitra Visweswaran, marking her 75th year. Organised in collaboration with the Alliance Française of Chennai, the event ...

Bharatanatyam is no more a regional pride, it has become global, as popular as Yoga in the classical dance genre. What got democratised after the disenfranchisement of the matriarchal hereditary ...

As Baby Kamala in films and Kumari Kamala on stage, she wove magic with her dance, which was marked by perfection and finesse. She was the ideal narthaki and a true ambassador of India’s art and ...