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

A Potomac, MD dance studio teaches Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance form. Step into the world of Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance form that has been nurtured and celebrated for centuries ...

(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 ...

LITTLETON — For dancers of Bharatanatyam — a South Indian classical dance style — an “arangetram” is the culmination of years, often more than a decade, of practice. As instructor Manasa Jayanthi ...

Since the age of 4, Radha Pandya, 17, of Edison, has been perfecting a 3,000-year-old Indian dance to continue the legacy of her culture and ensure it is passed down for generations to come. The dance ...

When dancer-choreographer Divya Nayar speaks about her new work ‘Meenātchi-The Goddess Reigns’, it is less about reviving mythology than about recognising the goddess within us. To be staged under the ...

A traditional mask dancer, known as Lakhe, performs during Indra Jatra festival, an eight-day festival that honors Indra, the Hindu god of rain, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. During ...

Diwali has officially been added to Unesco’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List, marking India’s 16th global cultural recognition. With this, India now has 16 recognised elements on the list, spanning ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Leaning on his 10-armed creation, Govind Nath is ready to breathe life into the Hindu goddess Durga, a beloved deity who will be revered by tens of thousands of worshippers during the ...