I was drawn to Chhau by many factors: the inspiration of my late guru Krushna Chandra Naik, Chhau’s socio-mythic background and the lyrical strength of the movement technique. The expansive use of ...

Plastic chairs and string cots are arranged neatly in a semi-circle under a canopy of trees at Beguna Diha, a village on the outskirts of Mayurbhanj in Odisha. You can hear the sound of practising ...

Rejuvenating an art form that was fast debilitating is not a simple task. Guru Shashadhar Acharya is however, not averse to challenges. His single-minded determination to restore to Chhau dance to its ...

Bhubaneswar, April 9: Chhau, the war dance to depict the readiness of the warrior community of the erstwhile princely state of Mayurbhanj, has been sinking into oblivion over the past few years. To ...

Chhau originated as an all-male tradition, Gotipua limited to pre-pubescent boys dressed as female, and the Odissi in the temple tradition was performed by women dedicated to spiritual service. The ...

Lucknow: LaTouche Road Puja Sangsad Society this year will be celebrating Durga Puja on a theme based on Chhau Dance, traditional dance form popular in Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand. The puja would be ...

Not many may have heard of chhau, a folk dance form from the Purulia district in West Bengal, that was also on the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010. Not many may have ...

Dance can be the simplest and yet, most effective form of communication in human life. In the heart of West Bengal’s Purulia district, generations of Chhau dancers know this to be true. “I have ...

nothing could be a rarer sight than this: about 50 tribal dancers from three different regions of the country performing in front of a host of hundreds foreign dignitaries, most of whom are on ...

LUCKNOW With the rising trend of theme-based puja pandals in the city, an exciting new addition is on the horizon. The “Latouche Road Puja Sangsad Society,” the city’s third-oldest puja committee, ...