It was not without a valid reason that the UNESCO declared Chhau dance as intangible cultural heritage of humanity. Guru Shashadhar Acharya, an expert Chhau teacher, and a Sangeet Natak Akademi award ...
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 ...
In a grainy black-and-white film snippet from a royal event in Calcutta in January 1912, a big group of martial dancers swamp the screen for about 30 flickering seconds. Swords and shields in hand, ...
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