How Bharatanatyam travelled to the Eastern Coast of North America
- Akhila Krishnamurti
A new chapter of the association of Bharatanatyam dancers (ABHAI) was launched recently during 'Pravaha', a festival that focused on the art form.

Stranger in a strange land
- Snigdha Hasan
As he draws a facet of his illustrious career in dance to a close with his final performance in a full-length piece, Akram Khan chooses a poignant theme for the occasion: an Indian soldier in the First World War grappling with the incongruity of it all. And a fitting venue: the Jamshed Bhabha Theatre at the NCPA.

A return to innocence
- Deepa Natarajan Lobo
A new production by ace dancer Madhu Nataraj fuses art, technology and music together to portray the many alarming aspects of climate change.

Dance that comforted Taiwan during its loneliest hour returns to the stage
- Wayne Chang
Performed by the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre troupe, "Legacy" is widely considered to be the first contemporary dance to tell the story of modern Taiwan.

Entrances and Exits
- Marina Harss
Watching "Āhuti" it is difficult not to feel that Sen's choreographic imagination has only grown in the time since the company's last visit.

The painter as a poet
- Saraswathy Nagarajan
Mohiniattam dancer Gayathri Madhusudan's 'Hiranmayam' is a tribute to Raja Ravi Varma's poetic skills.

Echoing with music for 100 years
- Shailaja Khanna
The Sankat Mochan Festival held at the ancient Hanuman temple in Benaras, takes art beyond gender, religious and musical barriers.

How dancer Ramli Ibrahim created the Indo-Malay cultural bridge
- V.V. Ramani
Malaysia-born dancer-choreographer Ramli Ibrahim, who turns 70, on his life-long bond with Indian classical dance.

How winds of change are blowing at National School of Drama
- Sheokesh Mishra
The batch of 2018, which passed out on May 1 this year, had 18 women among the 26 students-a first for the institution.

How Mira Nair's 'Monsoon Wedding' became a musical
- Annie Gowen
The musical adaptation takes on issues of sexual assault, financial inequity, and the experience of immigrants.

Nritta and Abhinaya
- Leigh Witchel
Nrityagram Dance Ensemble came back to New York City, and brought friends. In a program called "Āhuti", the Indian Odissi ensemble, collaborated with Chitrasena Dance Company from Sri Lanka, which specializes in Kandyan dance.

Myriad shades of shringara
- NC Srinivasaraghavan
Deepa Mahadevan depicted the rasa through well knit pieces that focused on the Krishna-gopika bond.

Rukmini Vijayakumar honours tradition while reaching for contemporary cultural consciousness
- Avantika Shankar
Where the Bengaluru-based dancer, choreographer and actor once struggled to keep the practice of modern dance and Bharatanatyam "separate" in her body, she eventually allowed each medium to gently influence her overall approach.

Enhancing museum experience with Navina Jafa – Dancing Sculptures
- Team Newsable
In the two hours walk around the galleries, Dr Navina Jafa took the small group of visitors into another world where she chose to interpret sculptures and paintings to provide a multidimensional understanding of Indian dance and their association with visual arts.

The elusive idea of grace
- Prathyush Parasuraman
Is grace that feeling of being swept into and receding from something, as in an Odissi recital?

A night at the Bhagavata Mela
- TR Sudha