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 ...

Hands move constantly during conversation. They signal emotion, stress a point, and form full languages such as American Sign Language. Behind this everyday motion lies a complex challenge. Each human ...

Ashwathi Menon, co-captain of UMBC's Indian fusion dance team, helps demo some of the technology in the lab. Here, she demonstrates the Katakamukha mudra as a robotic hand mimics her gesture. Parthan ...

From the very start, in all Indian dance forms, especially the classical, seemingly micro-positions of the fingers called ...

Mudras, yoga hand gestures, are an underrated aspect of asana that can shift your emotional state and intensify your practice ...

The smell of Indian spices, a shrine with flickering candles and the sound of a sitar greeted those entering the Players Theatre on Saturday night for the first public performance by the SaiNritya ...

LITTLETON — For dancers of Bharatanatyam — a South Indian classical dance style — an “arangetram” is the culmination of years, often more than a decade, of practice. As instructor Manasa Jayanthi ...