#indian dance

Kathak

Seema Mehta, disciple of Chitresh Das

Bharatanatyam/Contemporary

Dance Company: Float & Padme (presented by Arangham)
Event: Yagnaraman Festival (July 2015)
Photographer: Santosh Kunar

Bharatanatyam

Dancer: Tripti Bhupen
(Director of Samarpan; Graduate of Kalakshetra)

Photographer: unknown

Bharatanatyam

Dancer: Jhinook Mukherjee Sinha

Kathak

Dancers: Parul Shah and Prashant Shah, both disciples of Kumudini Lakhia

Odissi

Dancer: Sarita Mishra
Photographer: Saroj Kumar Mishra (2015)
Venue: Alliance Française - Bangalore

Kathak

Dancers: Chitresh Das Dance Company
Photographer: Gabriella Gamboa for SFBay (2014)
Venue: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco)

Panditji’s passing is such a loss for Indian dancers in the West. 

Happy 25th Anniversary to the ever-beautiful Nrityagram! 

May 11, 1990 - May 11, 2015!!

Odissi. Photo by Nan Melville. 

Kathak

Dancer: Sitara Devi

Bharatanatyam

Dancer: Ramya Sundaresan Kapadia
Photographer: Arun Kumar (October 2014)
Venue: Titmus Theater, NCSU (Raleigh, NC)

Bharatanatyam

Dancer: Unknown, but it is a reblog.

Bharatanatyam

Dancer: Savitha Sastry
Photographer: RK’s Photography

Sattriya

Dancer: Krishnakshi Kashyap, disciple of Ramkrishna Talukdar and Indira P. P. Bora

Odissi

Dance Company: Sutra Dance Theatre
Photographer: Iqbal Sagoo

Bharatanatyam

Dancer: Malini Srinivasan
Photographer: Purple Ganesh Photography

A glimpse into an abhinaya class with Smt. Kalanidhi Narayanan

Kalanidhi Narayanan, the ultimate exponent of abhinaya, has passed away at the age of 87.

As Ashish Mohan Khokar writes, “an era has come to an end with the death of one of the doyens of bharatanatyam.” Many in the dance world are sharing tributes to this icon and I’ll be sharing a few.

Bharatanatyam

Dancer:Sahana Balasubramanya
Photographer:Arun Kumar (2012)