After seven months of rehearsal, Nisha Patel began her first five-minute performance in 2010 for the UIUC Raas Team at center stage. “You get on the stage, and you can’t even see a single thing out ...

Boston University’s Fatakada team at the “Boston Be Taali 2019” Raas and Garba dance competition Saturday at John Hancock Hall. COURTESY OF RAAS DANCE COMPETITION A buzz filled the John Hancock Hall ...

Raas Royalty XV (RRXV), an Indian Garba and Raas dance competition hosted by IU club Raas Royalty, will take place with free admission at 5 p.m. on Saturday in the IU Auditorium. IU students founded ...

From Sept. 25 to Oct. 3, Hindus across the world will be celebrating Navratri. The holiday honors nine different forms of the mother goddess and is marked by special rituals, ceremonies, and fasts.

Over 37,000 women from the Ahir community in Gujarat came together to perform the Maha Raas dance on December 23 and 24. The Maha Raas, also known as the divine dance, celebrates the cosmic union of ...

Swirling skirts of bright colors, lively music and a large crowd of dancers make up the Raas-Garba festival, marking the end of the religious event Navratri. A night of animated dancing and sumptuous ...

As the Raas at Ohio State dance team looks ahead to its upcoming competitive season, members of the group reflect on the art form and its origins, dating back to ancient northern India. Raas at Ohio ...

Union Textiles and Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani on Friday performed the 'Talwar Raas' in Gujarat. Talwar Raas is a traditional Gujarat dance form using swords. Irani was attending ...

Krishna Janmashtami 2024 is starting today (August 26), and devotees are thrilled to celebrate the birth of their beloved Lord Krishna. It is one of the most vibrant and auspicious festivals in the ...

Spring is the time to dress up in bright colours and celebrate, according to the Elspeth Heyworth Centre for Women.And in honour of the season filled with hope, the centre will host a community dance ...

Navratri is here and after two years of waiting post-pandemic, Garba players are enthusiastic about getting back on ground. What makes things even more interesting is that people are now looking at ...

“I regard the poet as a sentinel warning us against the approaching enemies called bigotry, lethargy, intolerance” -- Mahatma Gandhi on Tagore, “The Great Sentinel”, Young India, October 13, 1921.