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 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 ...

The war dance or judha nritya, part of the kada hathiyar dhara genre of chhau, was a group performance by six artistes holding various weapons. They danced with dynamic body movements to depict the ...

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 ...

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.

Since that time, efforts by dedicated artist-scholars have transitioned other traditional dance forms to classical status and I see results of Chhau being left out.

This story is from March 28, 2015 Global plans for Chhau dance Dhritiman Ray / TNN / Mar 28, 2015, 14:39 IST AA Follow us ...

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.

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 ...

Chhau, belongs to the eastern region of India and is characterised by the mask and martial stylised movements of the performer. The most interesting fact is that Chhau Dance is listed on UNESCO ...

Jamshedpur, March 23: In a bid to popularise the lesser known traditional dance forms of Jharkhand, the ministry of art, culture, sports and youth affairs has decided to provide them a platform during ...