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unusual facts about Indian dance



Beryl de Zoete

In the field of dance, she taught eurhythmics, investigated Indian dance and theatre traditions, and collaborated with Walter Spies on Dance and Drama in Bali (1937), which is still a standard reference for traditional Balinese dance and theatrical forms.

Faubion Bowers

Bowers became a respected authority on oriental art and culture, writing scholarly monographs on such subjects as Indian dance and Japanese theatre, as well as a definitive two-volume biography of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin.


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Cristina Wistari Formaggia

1970s - She studied Kathakali, a South Indian dance drama, for two years in the southern Indian state of Kerala; she worked with one of the established masters of this art form, Guru Gopinath.

Danda nata

Danda Nata is an Indian dance festival that originated in the Boudh district of Odisha.

Hanay Geiogamah

In 1990, the group was featured in PBS' Great Performances in the segment "The American Indian Dance Theater: Finding the Circle".

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Mudra is nearly mute, being able only to communicate his own name and that he "speaks" by Abhinaya, the sign language used in classical Indian dance.

Henning Rübsam

While a student at the Juilliard School, he took Classical Spanish Dance, studied Indian dance with Indrani Rahman, took a summer intensive at the School of American Ballet, performed as the Faun in the Nijinsky/Debussy ballet, starred in a dance film at the Sundance Institute, where he worked with Diane Coburn-Bruning, Michael Kidd and Stanley Donen, and toured internationally with the Limón Dance Company.

Ralph Hubbard

In the 1920s, he organized Indian dance troupes that toured the U.S. and Europe, and in 1927, he wrote the American Indian Craft section of the Handbook for Boys.

Rishi Valley School

Apart from academics, students participate in various cultural activities including: classical Indian dance (Bharatnatyam), Carnatic music, Mridangam, Violin, Tabla and Piano.

Shantona Bag

Shantona is of Malaysian Indian descent and classically trained in the Indian dance forms Odissi and Bharata Natyam.