Jamshedpur, Jan 5: For the first time Sangeet Natak Academy (SNA) has come forward to promote Chhau dance of Saraikela. From January this year the academy has started giving scholarships to 10 local ...

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 ...

Mayurbhanj Chhau artistes are eagerly looking forward to Chaitra Parva this year, when they will again showcase their much neglected martial dance form May 22, 2025 e-Paper LOGIN Account ...

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 ...

KHARSAWAN: Seventy-something Sagen Mahto was a Chhau dancer in his youth. Now he uses nuances of the dance form to understand the politics of this star constituency, which was once a part of ...

Masked dancers, performing a Saraikela Chhau dance, depicted on the stage the struggle of a couple in a boat trying to cross a river against great odds signifying the huge burden of life for every ...

The Gurukul Chhau Dance Sangam from New Delhi was in Hyderabad to perform Mayurbhanj Chhau at the Rangbagh Dance and Music Festival recently. The festival lays emphasis on bringing into prominence ...

Notably, in 2010, Chhau Dance earned a spot on UNESCO’s representative list of Intangible Heritage of Humanity. Banerjee noted, “Preparations began two months ago, and we are now in the final ...

In a bid to promote the folk dance forms of the State, the Odisha Sangeet Natak Akademi will organise a three-day National Chhau Dance Festival at the Utkal Mandap here from May 28. Addressing ...

Other than several Indian traditional dances, a workshop on Chhau dance is being organized for theatre aspirants. Under various forms, the Shiva Tandava, Dhwaja Tamal Folk and War.