The Leela Dance Collective, a Los Angeles-based Kathak dance company, will perform the world premiere of “Encounters with ...

“When I was a child, I was exposed to Chinese dance,” she recalls. “However, I watched Indian movies as a child, and the dance scenes in them were very captivating and brought me joy.

That said, of all the classical Indian dances, Kathak is the one that is especially introduced as ‘a storytelling dance’. The name ‘Kathak’ is derived from the Sanskrit word Katha or ...

Assam's Himashree Sharma, a talented Kathak dancer from Gauripur, Dhubri, has brought pride to the state by clinching the ...