With the recent popularity of Bollywood films, many Americans have now become familiar with the captivating dances from Hindu and Indian culture. But the dancing, and costumes worn when performing the ...

When watching Indian classical dance, there's a lot going on: the folding and unfolding of the dancers' pleated costumes, their eyes moving back and forth between thick black eyeliner, their hands ...

Bridging the East and West, American women have found Hinduism’s powerful divine feminine through the art of sacred dance.

Leaping about onstage in purple and blue silks, Anika Kavalla, of Abington, danced to the demanding tempo of Hindu music for almost three hours. Last October, the 16 year old debuted before 200 guests ...

47-year-old K.M. Abu will be the first Muslim to receive a doctorate in Mohiniyattam. HT (HindustanTimes) Photo An Indian man in the southern state of Kerala has become the first Muslim to receive a ...

(RNS) — Throughout the United States, South Asian Americans young and old have come out to dance garba, the folk dance that began as a devotional form of worship and has now become a cultural ...

Pratik Vyas and his friends hit the dance floor early; they carried a roll of bandaging tape for the long night that lay ahead. For Navratri, an annual Hindu dance festival celebrating the triumph of ...

KOCHI, India (Reuters) - An Indian man in the southern state of Kerala has become the first Muslim to receive a doctorate in a classical dance rooted in Hindu mythology which is traditionally the ...

BLOOMINGTON — Bharatanatyam, one of the oldest classical dance traditions of India, will be presented during a public performance Sunday at the Hindu Temple of Bloomington-Normal. "This is a ...

Dressed in a brilliant peacock-blue sari, Kamala Lakshmi Narayanan is surrounded by a sea of reds, pinks, greens, oranges and golds in the costumes worn by her students as she leads them through ...