PBS

Step into the World of Bharatanatyam, a Classical Indian Dance Form

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 ...
insider.si.edu

American Indian dance steps, by Bessie Evans and May G. Evans ... introduction by Frederick Webb Hodge; illustraated in color by Poyege, San Ildefonso Indian

"Concerned chiefly with elements of the art observed in certain Pueblo tribes of New Mexico--especially those of San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Santa Clara, Cochiti, and Santo Domingo."--Foreword.
The New Yorker

How Classical Is Indian Classical Dance?

Every artist confronts her past, and, in the case of the Indian dancer Bijayini Satpathy, that past is both a country and a colonial legacy. Satpathy performs Odissi, a dance style from the eastern ...
The New Yorker

Akram Khan’s “Gigenis” Mines the Drama of Indian Classical Dance

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 ...