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 event was ...

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’) ...

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.

The Kolhan University (KU) plans to start a course on Chhau folk dance for its undergraduate students. The university officials said Kolhan division commissioner and vice-chancellor (VC) in-charge ...

Dance The story of how Chhau escaped from royal palaces and became the entertainment of the common man Emerging from mid-19th century martial training of elite fighters, Chhau had to go through a ...

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 ...

Kuchipudi: Kuchipudi originated in Andhra Pradesh. It is a dance-drama of Nritta (pure dance), Nritya (expressional dance), and Natya (drama). Mohiniyattam: Mohiniyattam originated from Kerala.

Read more belowEach of the three training centres would be built in about 1.5 acres. “There would be a dancing hall, music room, separate rooms for preserving the costumes, masks and other instruments ...