You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Nirmal Jena, artistic director of the Sydney-based Odissi Dance & Music Company and his sister, ...

Odissi is one of the famous classical Indian dances from Orissa state. Odissi is a highly inspired, passionate, ecstatic and sensuous form of dance. Like most of the South Indian classical dances of ...

The colours are diffused, the shots are blurred, and the rumble of a train often punctuates the two-hour recording. Yet what the home video captures is priceless – a filmed document of the early days ...

It’s an irony that Lord Nataraj, the creator of dance, is male while his creation has been the bastion of the female. Similarly, although the beauty and popularity of the classical dance style of ...

It is only half in jest that Kumkum Mohanty rues the absence of an equivalent of the Indian Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code in classical dance. “All this jumping around to excite and impress ...

In her essay “Liminal Spaces, Odissi as a continually evolving fom”, Ranjana Dave writes about what went into systematising the dance form of Odissi. She says :“Between 1957 and 1960, in night long ...

This solo Bharatanatyam recital by Isha Aggarwal, a disciple of Guru Sindhu Mishra, will witness a narrative plunge into the spiritual depths of the classic Ramcharitmanas. “This performance marks my ...

Odissi dance showcase Nritya Moha celebrates Guru Ranjana Gauhar's disciples. Odissi performance by Ranjana Gauhar's disciples The five talented disciples of Guru Ranjana Gauhar, who performed these ...