During the hustle and bustle of convention weekends, Beatrice,* a dance studio owner, has very strict rules about having a designated adult in charge at all times. So, when these parent chaperones were repeatedly turning up at the hotel bar, she knew she had to step in. “The kids would be like ‘Where’s my mom?’ and we would always find them at the bar,” she says. “It was so embarrassing to say to the kids, ‘Your mom is at the bar instead of here watching you get a scholarship.’” Drinking at dance conventions isn’t unheard of, and some members of […]

You may have heard of the National Dance Education Organization’s  National Honor Society for Dance Arts through the pins and cords that inducted members don on graduation day, but teachers everywhere will tell you: The benefits of an NHSDA education go far deeper than eye-catching wearables.  Diana Ford, a teacher at Miami Arts Charter School in Florida, loves NHSDA because the program encourages her students to lead the way. “The students decide how they want to help the community, and they create outlets to do that,” she says. NHSDA builds and celebrates dance students’ artistic merit, leadership, and academic achievements.  CREATIVE CONSERVATORY OF […]

Hiromi Maruhashi has been coming to Kerala every year to keep her connect with Mohiniyattam. She recently attended a workshop led by danseuse Neena Prasad

Tremaine Dance Conventions & Competitions started as a dream: A dream to share the fresh, new training techniques and material being taught in major cities like Los Angeles and New York with dance students throughout the country. President and co-founder Dr. Joe Tremaine (who received an honorary doctorate from The University of Arizona) has a long history of working with the best in the business—as a dancer, a choreographer, and an educator. (He’s worked with a star-studded list of entertainers, including Paula Abdul, Gregory Hines, Gene Kelly, and Barbara Streisand, to name a few.) In the 1970s, Tremaine opened the Joe Tremaine Dance Center in Los Angeles, and in […]

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The thematic production had episodes from Bala, Ayodhya and Aranya Kandams

April 18 is World Heritage Day and we look at the way culture departments, festival curators and heritage conservationists are drawing up innovative ideas to keep the curiosity about the past alive.

Ashimbandhu Bhattacharjee, Deepak Majumdar and Aruna Mohanty performed at the sixth edition of the festival held recently in Bengaluru

Based on Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Yadavan Chandran’s ‘Meanwhile Elsewhere’ offers a chance to understand life’s calmness, complexity and confusion; Mallika Sarabhai as Marco Polo leads the process.