Chhau dance was inscribed in 2010 on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This traditional dance form from eastern India showcases stories from the epics ...

Chhau dance is a tradition from eastern India that enacts episodes from epics including the Mahabharata and Ramayana, local folklore and abstract themes. Its three distinct styles hail from the ...

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 ...

Santosh Nair and his dance troupe Sadhya will perform at the NCPA this week If one could write poetry using space, Chhau would be the medium,” says Delhi-based contemporary dancer and founder of dance ...

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 ...

A centre for Chhau dance and research would come up shortly at Chandankiyari about 35 kms from the district headquarter of Bokaro. This research centre (‘Chhau Dance Research Centre’) is being ...

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: 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 ...

Jharkhand Chief Minister Champai Soren announced that a Chhau dance academy will be set up in the state to promote the famous martial dance form. Chhau dance is a traditional and historic identity 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 ...

BOKARO, Feb. 28 -- The Mahashivratri Chhau Dance Festival 2025 was grandly organized at Sangeet Natak Akademi Chhau Kendra, Chandanakiyari, under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The ...

Mousumi Choudhury, the first woman Chhau dancer from Purulia – a region where this vibrant traditional art form has long been dominated by men, has always been determined to change the narrative.