Music and dance are key elements of ethnic Indian art forms. This dance performance focuses on these elements, specifically rhythms and Mudras – hand gestures and body movements, of Indian dance. The ...

In Vidhya Subramaniam’s Cupertino garage there is lightening-fast movement, the booming sounds of feet shuffling over the wood floor and quick and deliberate hand gestures. This is the world of Mudras ...

Keep your hand straight my child,” coddles the teacher. Little hands contort into a 2,000-year-old mudra. Fingertips touch, neurons fire, and that little brain processes neuroplasticity at a magnitude ...

You value independent local news, so become a sustainer today to power our newsroom. On Sunday morning a little before 11 a.m., the tiny front office at NDM Bollywood Dance Studios in Artesia, Calif., ...

The Mudra Dance Festival, held annually at NCPA around World Dance Day, is a thematic celebration of Indian classical dance. While recent editions explored Aharya—the visual aspects of costume and ...

Nagendra Prabu, an Indian tourist guide, is winning hearts across the internet for his extraordinary skill in explaining the culture of India—particularly Indian classical dance forms—using mudras, ...

MUMBAI: April 30, 2026 – The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) successfully concluded the 2026 edition of its annual Mudra Dance Festival, held across April 16th, 23rd and 24th at the ...

There may be no conversation, but their expressions say it all as the audience reacts to danseuse Methil Devika’s new choreography. With fingers that move at lighting speed, the audiences speak to her ...