Dance is his fancy; preserving old customs, his forte. “When the sun sets, the choreography begins,” said Bejjanki, founder of Yuva Dance Academy in Ellicott City. Opened in 2016, the studio numbers ...

India is famous for its rich cultural heritage and classical dance forms are one of its most treasured artistic traditions. The dance forms are interesting due to a combination of music, storytelling, ...

At Children’s Manor Montessori School in Germantown where Praneetha Akula was teaching and performing, a little girl got to see herself in her teacher. The pre-K student announced that she knew how to ...

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 ...

INDIAN music is a very ancient art and has a three-thousand-year-old tradition behind it. This represents perhaps the longest unbroken record of any cultural tradition we know. Countries like China ...