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Tamil actor Suhasini Maniratnam’s fitness routine features a surprising new addition: Bharatanatyam at age 63
April 03, 2026 5:20 pm
Warming up before practice and cooling down afterward is crucial
Celebrating episodes from Krishna’s life
February 17, 2026 2:02 pm
Kaveri Abrol’s Bharatanatyam solo recital reworks the traditional margam to trace different relationships with the divine
11-year-old Puducherry girl performs Bharatanatyam underwater to raise awareness for plastic pollution
December 27, 2025 6:15 pm
Thaaragai Aarathana, a trained Bharatanatyam dancer and certified diver, performed the classical dance beneath the sea, dressed in full traditional costume with jewellery and makeup intact.
Mangaluru student sets world record with 170-hour Bharatanatyam performance; video goes viral
July 30, 2025 12:19 pm
The extraordinary dance marathon began on July 21 and concluded a week later on July 28.
How Malavika Sarrukai has spent over 50 years carrying the classical while rethinking what Bharatanatyam can be
July 19, 2025 2:29 pm
Bharatanatyam exponent Malavika Sarrukai, 'India's greatest living dancer’ according to noted art historian BN Goswami, on her dance journey, questioning tradition and how pay parity between a dancer and a musician continues to be overlooked in the Carnatic world’s debate on caste and gender
Yamini Krishnamurti, Bharatanatyam benchmark, torchbearer of Kuchipudi and Odissi, dies at 83
August 03, 2024 9:40 pm
“She was the benchmark. There has never been anyone like her,” says dance historian Ashish Khokhar.
'Bharatanatyam is a hard task master and the daily practice is physically exhausting.': Geeta Chandran
February 06, 2023 1:57 pm
For artists, there can be no typical day. But the ingredients mix of each day remains constant: yoga, riyaaz, teaching, performance, reading and making notes, said Bharatanatyam exponent Geeta Chandran
Of two dance titans, untold stories and a rain-soaked weekend
October 27, 2022 7:55 pm
Two performances by two heavyweight Bharatanatyam dancers – Leela Samson and Malavika Sarrukai – regaled those present at the two-day dance festival held at Neemrana’s Tijara Fort
Mohan Khokhar and MK Saroja: Two lives steeped in dance
September 21, 2022 12:15 pm
Eminent dance historian and academic Mohan Khokhar and his wife and Bharatanatyam exponent MK Saroja, whose lives were devoted to dance, were honoured in a two-day event in the Capital
Sunday Long Reads: Faculty of Fine Arts at MSU, viral hip-hop Bharatanatyam dancer Usha Jey, Brasília's architecture, and more
May 29, 2022 11:00 am
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