David Grannum’s lifelong journey as an artist prepared him for what he now describes as his mission: “to tell a story, and not just have a camera that’s looking at dancing bodies.” Grannum, a senior at USC, began his formal dance training at age 11 at the On Stage Academy of Performing Arts Center in Fall River, Massachusetts. In an interview, he spoke of his first teacher Linda Mercer-Botelho, and the values of “discipline, structure, and hard work” she instilled in him. He believes these values enabled him

Penn State’s Indian Culture and Language Club celebrated Garba in the HUB-Robeson Center on Sunday night. President of the ICLC Shashwat Shekhar said Garba is “one of the most popular festivals back in India.” “As you know, Hindu culture has a lot of gods and goddesses, right?” Shekhar (senior-computer science) said. “[Garba is] celebrated to kind of empower the female divinity.” Shekhar said the full ceremony is celebrated over nine nights consisting of "dance, music, snacks, everything.” “So here at Penn State, the ICLC is trying to recreate that feeling for the Indian

GURUGRAM, India — Gauri Dancers: The Opera of Mewar, presented by Latitude 28 in conjunction with Museo Camera Centre for the Photographic Arts, offers a new perspective into a performance art tradition from India. The show explores a series of dreamy hand-colored, black and white images by photographer Waswo X. Waswo in collaboration with third-generation hand-colorist Rajesh Soni, both of whom are based in Udaipur. The Gauri Dance is a centuries-old tradition of oral literature and performing arts by way of dance and drama, passed down over the generations among the

Yellow school buses took over Dubai’s roads on Sunday morning, as students returned to full in-person learning. Some schools went out of their way to make returning students feel comfortable. Not only did they put up banners and streamers, one school welcomed kids back with a Bhangra dance, a traditional Indian folk dance. “We went all out cranking up the beat

In the 1970s, she founded Hilliard's School of Dance where she taught ballet, tap, modern jazz and baton twirling to more than 5,000 students in 50 years. These days, Moore, 91, is still teaching weekly lessons but to a different group: her fellow memory support residents at Dublin Retirement Village. “When she moved to our community, it was an absolute natural fit to use her love and passion of music and dance as part of a unique way that we can connect with her and bring meaning and purpose

Sporting a nose ring and chunky silver jewelry the dancer in a long skirt and blouse pirouettes and shimmies with sinuous and graceful pelvic and belly movements, as the audience looks in rapt attention. Delhi-based Fashion graduate Eshan Hilal, 26,  was just five years old when he first danced to the rhythms of a popular song from a Bollywood hit.  But as he grew up in a conservative Muslim family, and refused to conform to the stereotype of a typical boy who would play cricket and rough games,

An unlikely combination will take center stage on campus this Friday, October 1. With assistance from College of Engineering researchers, Georgia Tech Arts and Terminus Ballet Theatre (TMBT) will mix dance with the fields of neuroscience, technology, and artificial intelligence (AI) to create a unique performance. TMBT dancers will perform excerpts of InterActions | Boundaries of Sensory Experience, a work-in-progress that is a physical embodiment of neuroscience and an exploration of the ethics and mechanics of how it’s used in AI technologies. Georgia Tech researchers have been meeting with the choreographer, Troy Schumacher,

Ballet, a beautiful, technical dance form which originated during the Italian Renaissance in the 15th century and later became a renowned classical concert dance across France and Russia, is opening up its doors to talented young dancers from around the world. In India, ballet is steadily gaining ground, especially among successful male dancers who have made strides at prestigious foreign dance companies and opera houses, despite social stigma at home. Growing up in the small town of Siliguri at the foothills of the Himalayas in West Bengal, 20-year-old

Young Irish dancers from Rugby shone brightly on the global stage at the recent world championships. Ten dancers from the Phoenix Academy of Irish Dance, based in Rugby, travelled to London to compete against the best dancers in the OPIDF World Irish Dance Championships. Eight-year-old Willow Bourne took the title of u7 primary World Champion with her classmate Sinéad McCreedy (also eight) taking second place. Read more @ https://www.warwickshireworld.com/news/people/world-champion-at-the-age-of-just-eight-how-irish-dancers-from-rugby-shone-brightly-on-the-world-stage-3397816

Most take a lifetime to figure out their passion—but not Daneya Celestin. The focused teen knew at the early age of 3 that dance was in her soul. She spends endless hours practicing—not just because she wants to be the best, but because she truly loves it. When she is not in the studio perfecting her pliés or working on a signature tap routine with choreographer Danielle Ward, you can find her at the mall shopping with friends, in the kitchen cooking with her dad or enjoying