Chicago’s Natya Dance Theatre celebrates its 30th anniversary with “Dance India: Choreographing Traditions,” a series of performances and lectures running Thursday through Sept. 10. Natya Dance ...

Bharatanatyam is the among most popular and well-known of all Indian dance traditions, and the Natya Dance Theatre visited the Peck Pavilion Tuesday night to showcase this ancient genre. The classical ...

Hema Rajagopalan says the last 50 years have flown by. “It seems like a short time to me,” says Rajagopalan, the founder, artistic director and chief choreographer of Natya Dance Theatre. The Indian ...

“With Natya Dance Theatre, being contemporary is our tradition,” says artistic director Hema Rajagopalan. “Bharatanatyam doesn’t need to be a museum piece that only people of knowledge can enjoy.” ...

The See Chicago Dance 2021 Legacy Award has been awarded to Hema Rajagopalan, Indian American artistic director of the Natya Dance Theatre. (photo provided) India-West Staff Reporte Hema Rajagopalan, ...

Saturday, April 29 is World Dance Day. And fittingly, that holiday falls on day two of the ninth annual American Natya Festival. Organized by St. Louis-based Soorya Performing Arts, this weekend’s ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Each year, individuals and organizations hold fundraisers for the WHAS Crusade for Children. The Natya Kendra Dance Academy has held a special recital for 9 years to share the rich ...

For a bharata natyam dancer to hold her leg high is as shocking to an Eastern classicist as a ballet dancer standing on her head would be to a Western traditionalist. That’s partly the result of the ...

ST. LOUIS — Soorya Performing Arts is hosting its annual Natya Festival June 13–15 at Clayton High School Auditorium. The three-day event celebrates Indian classical dance with performances from top ...