On International Dance Day today, Mukti (37) notes, “Dancers are no longer referred to as nachaniya, naachne wale, or worst of all — an item girl. Respect took time, but today, we’re seen as ...

CW Star Jericho Rell visited Shakti Dance Movement, where they have classes, workshops, and great events. Shakti Dance Movement teaches tribal fusion belly dance. “We take belly dance as our base, and ...

On Sunday, April 23, 2017 at 2:00pm at Shea’s Smith Theater, Devi Bollywood Dance presents, Shakti: A Bollywood Dance Showcase. The showcase is choreographed by Founder and Artistic Director, Gaitrie ...

With their painstaking, precise movements, the women look like Hindu statues of goddesses come to life. Barefoot and clad in yoga gear and flowery, flowing pants, five women and one child assemble in ...

Devi Bollywood Dance is at it again, with a reboot of Shakti: A Bollywood Dance Showcase. Revisiting their sold out performance from April, director Gaitrie Subryan returns to the stage at Shea’s ...

Looking for weekend plans? Starting tonight, Shakti Moves, a local female-led dance company, is presenting Myths and Makers at the Ground Floor Theatre. Founder Erica Santiago joined Studio 512 to ...

When Viji Prakash's marriage brought her to California from her native India in 1976, she didn't find an Indian classical-dance community in Los Angeles. She created one. Prakash, a virtuoso in the ...

Twenty-five years is not a long time in the Hindu scheme of things. Think of Amba’s years of austerity so that she could be reborn to take her revenge on Bhishma in the Indian epic “Mahabharata.” But ...