Rewind: Reviving temple dance — Ranganatha Swamy, Ramappa and beyond
Torn from worship and reduced to spectacle, temple dance lost its sanctity to colonialism, reform, and exploitation.
Hebdo Ahram3d
Against the odds! Egyptian women troupe dance Mawlawiyya
Historically, the Mawlawiyya is halfway between prayer and dance. It is a ritual developed in Turkey by the poet Jalal Al-Din Al-Rumi in the 13th century in an attempt to develop his Sufi ...
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Nowruz: Celebrating the New Year on the Silk Roads
Nowruz is a rite dating back to the 6th century BCE, marking the ushering in of spring and the new year. Variously known as ...
Archaeology26d
From Head to Toe in the Ancient Maya World
A Late Classic (A.D. 600–900) Maya vase from the Peten region of Guatemala portrays a king and queen (above, center) preparing to perform a ceremonial dance ... The ancient Maya, whose world ...
Dancer Ananth Udupa roots his philosophy in the Natyashastra, an ancient Sanskrit treatise on the performing arts
It didn’t all sit right with Udupa, who specializes in Bharatanatyam, an Indian dance style historically associated with ...