The audience sat in devoted silence, as images from a bygone era appeared on the screen. While one could see the energetic dance movements of the figures on film, with fleeting shots of percussion ...

Sattriya dance, which was included as one of the eight major dances in India, has been seeing tremendous growth in the public fora. TNIE speaks to two proponents of the art form, who recently ...

What sets Sattriya apart from other classical dance forms is its unique charm and grace, which evocatively imbue it with the bhakti rasa. This is what one surmised from an insightful talk delivered by ...

The 16th Rasheswar Saikia Barbayan Sattriya Dance Award and the 56th Annual Festival of Dance were held recently in Guwahati by Sangeet Sattra in honour of its founder principal, Adhyapak Rasheswar ...

The institution celebrated the 18th Raseshwar Saikia Barbayan Sattriya Award ceremony during its 58th Annual Festival of ...

Guwahati: Sattriya dance of Assam, propagated by Vaishnavite saint and social reformer Mahapurush Srimanta Sankardev in the mid-15th century, remained exclusively confined within the satras until ...

Being among the seven elite across India to be nominated as a member of the dance advisory committee to the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Delhi, and the first to represent Sattriya dance in the panel, is one ...

Though no one from her family pursued performing arts, Prateesha Suresh always wanted to learn Indian classical dance forms. That’s why, on completing her graduation from Guwahati’s Cotton College, ...

Guwahati, April 22 : Guwahati, April 22: The controversy over the nomenclature of Sattriya dance refuses to die down. Five months after Sattriya was accorded the status of a 'major Indian dance form', ...

Although to a layman (such as I), for a few fleeting seconds it might seem to resemble Manipuri dance, which is familiar to Bengalis, it shouldn't take long to distinguish the uniqueness and ...