In Vidhya Subramaniam’s Cupertino garage there is lightening-fast movement, the booming sounds of feet shuffling over the wood floor and quick and deliberate hand gestures. This is the world of Mudras ...

Keep your hand straight my child,” coddles the teacher. Little hands contort into a 2,000-year-old mudra. Fingertips touch, neurons fire, and that little brain processes neuroplasticity at a magnitude ...

Ashwathi Menon, co-captain of UMBC's Indian fusion dance team, helps demo some of the technology in the lab. Here, she demonstrates the Katakamukha mudra as a robotic hand mimics her gesture. Parthan ...

There may be no conversation, but their expressions say it all as the audience reacts to danseuse Methil Devika’s new choreography. With fingers that move at lighting speed, the audiences speak to her ...

One day in late December, Gopalan Venu, more popular as G Venu sat holding his knees, his back ramrod straight, on the plush sofa of a green room, where shortly, his play, Sakuntalam, was to be ...

The Mudra Dance Festival, held annually at NCPA around World Dance Day, is a thematic celebration of Indian classical dance. While recent editions explored Aharya—the visual aspects of costume and ...

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 30: The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) successfully concluded the 2026 edition of its annual Mudra Dance Festival, held across April 16th, 23rd and ...

Pop star Rihanna tried Bharatanatyam during her Mumbai visit at a Fenty Beauty event. A video of her learning mudras and expressions is now being widely shared online.

Barely had she got over her father’s sudden death that Hyderabad-based Vani Bhavani had to cope with a new role—breadwinner of the family. The 18-year-old felt overwhelmed. She had to give up on her ...