Pallabi Chakravorty’s books, including the kathak bible ‘Bells of Change’, speak about the biases of the art, its forgotten history and everyday practitioners.

Kathak is known for its distinctive, virtuosic footwork (emphasized with many rows of ankle bells), signature spins, gestural hand movements, emotional facial expressions and mime.

But this isn’t Staples Center, and instead of purple-and-yellow Laker jerseys, the garb consists of sherbet-colored silk kurtis, or tunics, cotton drawstring pants and hundreds of ankle bells.

Pandit Chitresh Das, who died at 70 in Marin County on Sunday, Jan. 4, of an aortic dissection, was not the only distinguished classical Indian dancer to make a home in the Bay Area, but thanks to ...

Rossana is a dancer and teacher of Kathak, the classical Indian dance, as well as a mother with a full-time job. "For people like me, who are always on the run, to sit and meditate?

FAMED Indian dancer Shama Bhate knows how to ring her bell - she can isolate and shake just one or two bells from the 200 tied around each ankle when she does the Kathak dance. Shama, from Pune in ...

Dancers swathed in colorful silk saris with bells jangling from their ankles will perform a passionate and exotic dance form from northern India in Tokyo on May 12 and 13 in an event titled ...

Adah performs kathak on Jingle Bells Christmas carol, video goes viral. December 26, 2019. Actress Adah Sharma sure knows how to do things out-of-box.