Intricate hand gestures, purposeful footwork, expertly controlled facial expressions – a Bharatanatyam dancer must possess all these qualities to fully convey the essence of a story. When melodious ...

Harini Sri, a 13-year-old girl from Tamil Nadu, performed Bharatanatyam for three hours straight to raise funds for Wayanad landslides, donating Rs 15,000 -- including her savings -- to the Chief ...

Bharatanatyam is the oldest form of Indian classical dance to exist, and is regarded as an elegant and devotional fine art, exploring the Hindu depths of spirituality. It is a dance that I myself too, ...

On a cool December evening somewhere in Chennai, a dancer begins the third jathi in a varnam, leaping into the air and landing on her knees before breaking into a split, perfectly timed to the music.

It looks like an unlikely setting for a Bharatanatyam class. The stamping of feet on the floor in tune with the jathis of Bharatanatyam fills the small hall with a tin roof of the Thai Tamil Palli at ...

Parama Padam, a solo Bharatanatyam performance, became the new dance production for the latest global tour of Apsara Arts in 2017. Mohanapriyan Thavarajah had just stepped inside the famous shrine in ...

Dressed in a brilliant peacock-blue sari, Kamala Lakshmi Narayanan is surrounded by a sea of reds, pinks, greens, oranges and golds in the costumes worn by her students as she leads them through ...

Bharatanatyam is a classical Indian dance form that originated in the temples of Tamil Nadu, a southern province of India. This dance form denotes various 19th- 20th-century reconstructions of Sadir, ...