The venerable nagaswaram vidwan Sembanarkoil Vaidyanathan ascended the stage to accept the honour that was being bestowed on him. None expected what followed. He sang the Atana padam ‘Chumma Chumma ...

A legion of composers and poets with a gift of sublime vision and enduring devotion to a chosen deity have breathed aesthetic flavour into compositions that have remained in the popular imagination of ...

Lovelorn maidens, heartless dandies and coquettes, envy, betrayal, languor and heaving passion, all amidst a profusion of moonlight and jasmine. This is the dramatic, and rather medieval, universe of ...

CHENNAI: See the music, Hear the dance’, a three-day collaborative programme by noted dancer Alarmel Valli, was premiered in the city recently. With eminent vocalist Bombay Jayashri Ramnath lending ...

It was indeed a sight-and-sound at a popular experiental lab in Alwarpet on Saturday morning as the members of the audience explored the forever-revered Indian classical dance form Bharatnatyam ...

With over three decades in the performance arena, Dr Subhashini Parthasarathy’s works have two important aspects — thematic concepts and her exhaustive work in padams and javalis (two components that ...