Hema Rajagopalan's Sharira/Shariri - Held Within: On ego, surrender, and the individual's place within the whole
- Anita Vallabh
Celebrating Natya Dance Theatre's 50th Anniversary, Chicago, March 19, 2026.

Dutch National Ballet's reimagined La Bayadère triumphs without its colonial gaze
- Mark Vincente
Dutch National Ballet premiered a new version of La Bayadère, updating the classical ballet for a contemporary audience.

Mastering The Art
- Pankil Jhajhria
StoneX brings its immersive cultural film series Mastery to New Delhi with a two-day festival exploring artistic process, discipline, and creative legacy.

More than 300 cultural groups lose grants under Guru-Shishya scheme; artists flag distress
- Parvez Sultan
For 2024-25, a total of 2,371 applications were submitted - 1,750 for renewal and 621 fresh requests. For the 2025-26 grant cycle, the ministry received nearly 2,300 proposals, including 296 fresh applications and the committee approved 41 fresh applications and 554 renewal requests.

Mythili Prakash's "She's Auspicious" hurls Bharatanatyam into the 21st century
- Jeff Slayton
One does not need to have an extensive knowledge of Bharatanatyam or ancient India mythology to understand and follow the complex story being told in Mythili Prakash's award winning production "She's Auspicious."

The village as a stage
- VR Devika
Mookambikai Murugesan from K. Velur village, like her guru Sangeeta Isvaran, is using dance as a tool of change.

This Mumbai bus is turning music into a lifeline for 500 children in Bastis
- Krystelle Dsouza
When music becomes a teacher, every lesson becomes enjoyable, is what the Khurana sisters discovered when they started The Sound Space to offer music and allied learning to children from underprivileged communities in Mumbai.

Odissi comes alive through art in 'Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom'
- Ashutosh Acharya
Across many of the artworks and photographs in the exhibition, Ramli Ibrahim himself appears as a recurring muse.

Akram Khan rewrites the narrative for Lady Macbeth at Royal Danish Ballet
- Courtney Escoyne
According to choreographer Akram Khan, the most important thing for audiences to understand about his new ballet Lady Macbeth is that "it's really not Macbeth. It's its own story as a response to Shakespeare's Macbeth."

What is the sound of a salad? Reinventing the kitchen as a performance space
- Tarini Unnikrishnan
A collaborative performance in Lado Sarai breaks the fourth wall, inviting the audience to chop, eat, and rethink the act of cooking.