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 ...

If the unmasked Chhau dance style of Mayurbhanj in Orissa has gained global recognition today, much credit should go to its celebrated exponent Srihari Nayak, who passed away in his home town of ...

Mousumi Choudhury, the first female Chhau dancer from Purulia, enacts Mahisasur bodh in a verdant landscape brimming with kashphul ahead of Durga Puja Mousumi Choudhury, the first woman Chhau dancer ...

Chhau dance is in the doldrums. The art and artists have been increasing starved by mismanagement of government funds and perhaps also because this sophisticated martial arts-based dance genre is ...

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 ...

The Chhau dance of Eastern India — Orissa, Jharkhand, and West Bengal – is a blend of martial traditions, temple rituals, and folk and popular performance of this region. Episodes from the epics ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aiming to reinstate the lost tradition of the art form and to facilitate the development of research initiatives, Chhau Dance and Research Centre was inaugurated at Chandankiyari in Bokaro district on ...

Swapan Majumder is an Indian exponent of Chhau dance and his wife Sucheta, a Bangladeshi, is a Kathak artiste. The dancer duo is now in Dhaka to conduct a workshop on dance. Noted Bangladeshi dancers ...

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, ...