Serving as a bridge between tradition and innovation, history and progress - Indian Kathak and American Jazz Tap dance - continents and ages apart share parallel stories of struggle and perseverance ...

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2 Casting & Cities Announced For THE OUTSIDERS North American Tour "We are calling the series Mehfil-e, which literally translated means an evening of courtly entertainment in an intimate setting," ...

Pallabi Chakravorty, an Associate Professor in the Dance Program at Swarthmore College, will visit Westphal on May 18 and 19 for a guest lecture and Kathak Master Class as a 2017 Rankin Scholar. Dr.

Capitola >> Kathak dancer Antara Bhardwaj counted the beat — “one, two, three, four, again” — Saturday during a Tannery World Dance seminar at Capitola Library. For 28 years, Bhardwaj has practiced ...

With 15 pounds of bells on his ankles and sweat in his silver hair, Birju Maharaj stamps out ever more complex rhythms. Sometimes they sound uncannily like birds singing or rain falling. But always, ...

When kathak dance master Pandit Chitresh Das and tap maestro Jason Samuels Smith first came together in 2005 for the unprecedented collaboration “India Jazz Suites,” it seemed as if they had flung ...

PLANO, Texas — At Kathak Rhythms, a dance studio in Plano, every step the women are taking is a form of self-care. “It's definitely given me a lot of confidence and confidence in my mental stamina and ...

It is a drizzly Tuesday afternoon in February, and Chitresh Das is carrying a large suitcase of tablas while darting up the steps of the Cultural Integration Fellowship, a brick building on the corner ...

As a principal dancer and 17-year member of the Chitresh Das Dance Company, Seibi Lee was accustomed to a question her master teacher often asked. “He spent years preparing us for what happened ...

"...the best new arrival on the city's dance scene in the last two years..." —New York Times Indian—and India inspired—dance in an array of forms, old and new ...