Dance can be the simplest and yet, most effective form of communication in human life. In the heart of West Bengal’s Purulia ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bengal’s Chhau dancers & mask-makers speak to Aishik Chanda of the challenges of continuing the tradition. Tucked away at the southern end of the Ayodhya Hills in West Bengal’s Purulia ...

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.

Under the aegis of SPIC-MACAY, Chhau dance was performed at the AISECT University here. Performing the Chhau dance, artists from West Bengal presented ‘Ravana Vadh’. BHOPAL: Under the aegis of ...

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’) ...

A rare performance in Vashi hopes to resuscitate the fading folk dance form of traditional artistes from the Purulia district ...