When Anne Tiburtius was asked 30 years ago to perform a dance she loved at an event, she did not expect it to grow into a dance company of more than 70 performers. Three decades later, she is now ...
Asha Bala, founder of the Leela School of Dance in Cary, trains young women in dances that are new to them and yet centuries old. When Asha Bala was born, her mother looked at her and declared that ...
At MIT, the Open Dance Lab is exploring how to preserve an ancient dance form with the help of artificial intelligence. “I’ve always been drawn to projects that use AI to connect with and advance ...
In a fusion of contemporary choreography and ancient dance rituals, the Denver-based Zikr Dance Ensemble will perform the show "Ancient Shadows" in Grand Junction. The fully-costumed dance performance ...
The air is quiet but charged with energy, like the moments after a lightning bolt arcs across the sky during a thunderstorm. Then, the thunder returns – the drum rumbles. The lions have arrived, ...
Since the age of 4, Radha Pandya, 17, of Edison, has been perfecting a 3,000-year-old Indian dance to continue the legacy of her culture and ensure it is passed down for generations to come. The dance ...
Last month, Associate Professor of Archaeology Felipe Rojas and Dartmouth postdoctoral fellow Robert Weiner ’16 MA’16 published their paper “Choreographic empathy beyond human and animal.” The paper ...
Images of dance and drama are found both on bas reliefs and in free standing sculpture from ancient Cambodian temples. Unfortunately, we know very little about the meanings and gestures of dance in ...