Torn from worship and reduced to spectacle, temple dance lost its sanctity to colonialism, reform, and exploitation.

Believed to be the oldest of India's Classical dances and the truest to the ancient texts, it began primarily as a devotional dance, performed in temples by Devadasis, women who were bound and ...

Sri Noopurlaya, under the guidance of guru Lalitha Ganapathi, a senior disciple of veteran dancer-scholar Padma Subrahmanyam, ...

She also questions why Bharatanatyam continues to hold on to compositions that depict women in submissive roles. “Any art form has to evolve with the times,” she says. “If you watch a movie ...

Bharatanatyam originated from the South ... danced by the courtesans or the handmaidens of God who were in the temple. They were dedicated to the God and there were dancers for each rituals ...

Living Temple, a three-day festival celebrating heritage, architecture, and fine arts, began at T-Works in Hyderabad, on Friday. The event spotlights a multidisciplinary art exhibition featuring works ...

Tejasvi Surya, Bengaluru South MP, married Carnatic singer and Bharatanatyam artist Sivasri ... praised her Kannada rendition dedicated to Ram Temple. Karnataka BJP President and MLA Vijayendra ...

citing temple tradition. Mansiya V P, a Bharatanatyam dancer and a PhD research scholar in classical dance, claimed that the temple authorities denied her permission to perform despite her name ...