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’) ...

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 ...

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.

The Chhau dance made it to the Unesco’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010. It’s a semi-classical Indian dance with martial and folk traditions.

India-West News Desk 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.

If one could write poetry using space, Chhau would be the medium,” says Delhi-based contemporary dancer and founder of dance company Sadhya, Santosh Nair, over the telephone. Nair and his troupe ...

The roots of chhau come from indigenous forms of dance and martial practices - which are reflected in the movements that mimic martial arts techniques, as well as gaits of birds and animals.

A Chhau dance training centre came up at Adityapur on Thursday, taking the traditional dance form to a new horizon from Seraikela. Set up by Ashma India, a leading cultural platform of the region, the ...

Picture by Bhola Prasad Jamshedpur, July 23: The state art and culture department has discovered a new variant of Chhau, a tribal dance, which does not involve the mask and involves dialogue between ...

The “Latouche Road Puja Sangsad Society,” the city’s third-oldest puja committee, established in 1942, is preparing a pandal inspired by the ‘Chhau Dance,’ a semi-classical Indian dance ...