With their painstaking, precise movements, the women look like Hindu statues of goddesses come to life. Barefoot and clad in yoga gear and flowery, flowing pants, five women and one child assemble in ...

It’s a bitterly cold Tuesday night, and the Georgia Saazish dance team is running formations in the lobby of the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. The lighting is dim, the glass ...

(RNS) — In her early teens and early 20s, Halo Seronko struggled with an eating disorder and bodily insecurities. “I’ve been a woman who’s overcome so many challenges just because I’m a woman, and I ...

After a milestone night for Asian and Asian American inclusion at the 95th Academy Awards, one community is still feeling the sting of being left out. Sunday’s performance of the viral heel-tapping ...

In 2013, several of Smitha Krishnan’s friends reached out, asking if she was available to teach Mohiniyattam — a form of classical Indian dance originating from the southern state of Kerala — to them ...

Recently, at the Joyce Theatre, I attended a war. The war was a dance, “Gigenis: The Generation of the Earth,” directed by the British dancer and choreographer Akram Khan, loosely inspired by the ...

4 A 2025 Guide To New York City’s Under-the-Radar Holiday Highlights A celebration of American Indian dance and culture is headed to New York City's most historic working farm as the Queens County ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The choreographer Akram Khan’s “Gigenis,” based loosely on a character in the Mahabharata, represents a kind of homecoming for him. By Marina Harss A ...

The team behind the global sensation "Naatu Naatu," from the Indian film "RRR," made history at the Academy Awards on Sunday by taking home the Oscar for best original song. It marked the first song ...

MAHARAJGANJ, India (Reuters) - To earn a living, Kiran dresses up in women's clothes, dances at wedding parties in the Indian countryside and tries not to struggle when he is raped at knifepoint by ...

(RNS) — Bridging the East and West, American women have found Hinduism’s powerful divine feminine through the art of sacred dance. (RNS) — In her early teens and early 20s, Halo Seronko struggled with ...