Final leg of Abhinaya's summer fest

Some committed gurus offer their thoughts on teaching abhinaya Anecdotes about great dancers like Balasaraswati or Pandit Shambhu Maharaj to name just two whose abhinaya communicated instantly with non-Indian or non-initiated audiences have passed into ...

When Om split, it not only led to the origin of Sanskrit but also gave rise to 50 different sounds, their permutations and combinations creating this vast universe. Thus Sanskrit came to be called the source of everything. This ancient language recently ...

Young dancers honoured the training imparted by gurus through a combination of nritta and abhinaya

Shodhan PrasadDaijiworld Media Network- Dubai Dubai, Apr 17: Abhinaya Chakravarthy 'Kichha' Sudeep starrer Karnataka Sandalwood's most expected movie of the year 'Bachchan', is all set to release on April 18, April 19 and April 20 in Dubai, Abu ...

Swathi K Iyengar It is exhilarating to experience the steady, systematic and disciplined progress made by an artiste whose development graph has always been on a higher trajectory. The innocuous enthusiasm and the cheerfulness that encompass such ...

As part of a performing arts project for the Ministry of Culture, Carnatic vocalist Sudha Raghunathan presented 'Ashtadarshanam' at the India International Centre recently. Her performing arts project sought to illustrate the complex linkages between raga and ...

Geeta Chandran and Sudha Raghuraman chat with Utpal K Banerjee about their recent experimental project, Ashta Darshana, where dance dimensions were fused with eight directions of sound vibration Does music descend from spheres? Is it an ...

Smitha Murthy (left) and T V Gopalakrishnan Gaining mastery over two different styles of music demands inherent talent, hard work and dedication. Only a few can accomplish this. It is difficult to rightly understand the subtle nuances and imbibe ...

The latter half of the last century witnessed the staging of a series of new Kathakali plays, most of which were blind replications of the thematic structure and characterisations of the highly successful plays already in vogue. A couple of them, ...