The Mudra Dance Festival 2026 celebrated young classical dancers, showcasing their dedication to traditional forms. NCPA hosted the festival alongside its first interschool competition. With ...

In Vidhya Subramaniam’s Cupertino garage there is lightening-fast movement, the booming sounds of feet shuffling over the wood floor and quick and deliberate hand gestures. This is the world of Mudras ...

Keep your hand straight my child,” coddles the teacher. Little hands contort into a 2,000-year-old mudra. Fingertips touch, neurons fire, and that little brain processes neuroplasticity at a magnitude ...

One day in late December, Gopalan Venu, more popular as G Venu sat holding his knees, his back ramrod straight, on the plush sofa of a green room, where shortly, his play, Sakuntalam, was to be ...

A conversation with Swapnokalpa Dasgupta on why Mudra 2026 is putting children at the heart of India’s classical dance future ...

The Mudra Dance Festival, held annually at NCPA around World Dance Day, is a thematic celebration of Indian classical dance. While recent editions explored Aharya—the visual aspects of costume and ...

There was a time when classical dances remained only in the realms of a section of society which dominated the cultural scene. HT Image Today, however, that art has spread its wings to take in its ...

Mumbai, April 30, 2026 – The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) successfully concluded the 2026 edition of its annual Mudra Dance Festival, held across April 16th, 23rd and 24th at the ...

Pop star Rihanna tried Bharatanatyam during her Mumbai visit at a Fenty Beauty event. A video of her learning mudras and expressions is now being widely shared online.