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 epics ...

Ranchi: When Subodh Pramanik first stepped onto a makeshift village stage as a young boy, he could have barely imagined that his passion for Chhau and Paika dance, two traditional dance forms of ...

The "Dance of Masks" refers to Chhau, a powerful tribal martial dance from Eastern India. It is famous for its vibrant energy and the highly expressive masks worn by the performers. Chhau began in the ...

Sarojini Naidu was perhaps the first to describe in detail the beauty of Seraikela Chhau to Mahatma Gandhi. She told him it was a dance form in which the king and princes danced alongside their ...

Dance can be the simplest and yet, most effective form of communication in human life. In the heart of West Bengal’s Purulia district, generations of Chhau dancers know this to be true. “I have ...