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Veena Murthy Vijay unravels the many layers of Kuchipudi
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The NYCDA Difference: “Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Learn”
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You’re Invited to the 2025 Dance Teacher Awards Ceremony!
Join us in celebrating our 2025 Dance Teacher Award honorees on Tuesday, October 7th, at…
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Meet Corey Baker, the Brains Behind “Wednesday” Season 2’s Woe-tally Creepy Choreography
There’s an easy way to remember how to pronounce Corey Baker’s name: “It’s Corey, like…
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Piyal Bhattacharya’s ‘Marga natya’ is a blend of western and Sanskrit theatre traditions
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Quinn Callahan: Rock-Solid Resourcefulness
Before online tools made dance instruction universally accessible, honing skills beyond one’s local school was…
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Letter From the Editor: Back to School and Back to Dance
Whether you and your students took the summer off or you’ve been busy with camps…
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How the Sanskrit treatise Abhinaya Darpanam continues to influence Indian classical dance
Abhinaya Darpanam, which stands out for its granular focus on movement, gesture and expressive technique,…
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