After just over four years of dance, K, who will turn turn eight in the summer, received her first set of bells on Sunday. These are the ghungroo*, the little brass bells that are woven (by the dancer, or in this case, the dancer’s mother) onto a length of thin rope. These are the bells [...]
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Dance oasis
Posted in Dance/Arts, Moments, tagged ankle bells, Chhandika, dance class, dancing pregnant, Gretchen Hayden, kathak, Varsha Yeshwant on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of years ago, a photojournalism graduate student from Boston University named Varsha Yeshwant approached Chhandika, the dance group with which I am closely affiliated, asking for permission to create a multi-media project around our dance. Specifically, she said: “I want this to serve as a small window into the world of Kathak and [...]
