Plastic chairs and string cots are arranged neatly in a semi-circle under a canopy of trees at Beguna Diha, a village on the outskirts of Mayurbhanj in Odisha. You can hear the sound of practising ...

Much before many of India’s dance forms got global recognition, the unique martial Chhau dance of Mayurbhanj arrested the attention of the then British monarch and, subsequently, of international ...

Shadhona's latest production, “Tasher Desh” is to incorporate the energetic Chhau dance from Purulia and contemporary Western from UK. Two renowned masked Chhau dancers from Purulia, Biren Kalindi and ...

Swapan Majumder is an Indian exponent of Chhau dance and his wife Sucheta, a Bangladeshi, is a Kathak artiste. The dancer duo is now in Dhaka to conduct a workshop on dance. Noted Bangladeshi dancers ...

The Chhau dance of Eastern India — Orissa, Jharkhand, and West Bengal – is a blend of martial traditions, temple rituals, and folk and popular performance of this region. Episodes from the epics ...

Santosh Nair and his dance troupe Sadhya will perform at the NCPA this week If one could write poetry using space, Chhau would be the medium,” says Delhi-based contemporary dancer and founder of dance ...

Lucknow: LaTouche Road Puja Sangsad Society this year will be celebrating Durga Puja on a theme based on Chhau Dance, traditional dance form popular in Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand. The puja would be ...

Shubanshi Chakraborty's 'Natok' bags best direction award in the ongoing Busan New Wave Short Film Festival 2022 in South Korea Shubanshi Chakraborty (left) during the shooting of the short film at ...

LUCKNOW With the rising trend of theme-based puja pandals in the city, an exciting new addition is on the horizon. The “Latouche Road Puja Sangsad Society,” the city’s third-oldest puja committee, ...