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 ...
The floors shine in Sairam’s St. Paul dance studio. In order to reach it, she has to descend a narrow stairway into a brightly-painted basement. It’s perfect studio space, Sairam said. She and her ...
Bharatanatyam dancer and educator Sohini Roychowdhury conducted a dance masterclass titled Nrityasutra at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Mumbai, bringing the classical tradition of ...
When I signed up for a Bollywood dance class, I honestly thought that I would end up getting annoyed with how white the supposedly Indian class was. Coming from an Indian family, I was gently pushed ...
When Arthy Ahmed launched her Bharatanatyam class in Dhaka, many in the classical dance circuit saw it as a side project at best, and a waste of time at worst. "They told me, don't spend your energy ...