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 ...

Jamshedpur, March 29: In a toss-up between the palace and the state as chhau’s main patron, a 300-year-old royal ritual has been hit the hardest. Like every year, the members of the Singhdeo dynasty ...

Not many may have heard of chhau, a folk dance form from the Purulia district in West Bengal, that was also on the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010.

BALASORE: Here is good news for culture and heritage aficionados of the State. After repeated demands and subsequent proposals, the United Nations Educational, ...

My discovery of Mayurbhanj Chhau was only in 1973 when I was in India to continue training in Manipuri dance after my Dance M.A. from the University of Michigan.

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 ...

KOCHI: Pandit Gopal Prasad Dubey, a renowned exponent of the famed Chhau dance, will enthrall the audience in Kochi on Monday. The vibrant Chhau form traces its lineage from tribal martial ...

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 ...

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 ...