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Will Mumbai's dance bar girls get to emerge from the shadows?

Six nights a week, Aanam Khan (name changed) dresses in a ghaghra-choli for work. She is a bar girl based in Mumbai's Mira Road suburb, and also works in a bar in Mumbai Central on certain days.
JSTOR Daily

Bar Dancers, Morality and the Indian Law

The ban in Maharashtra on beer bars where women employees dance has completed five years. The prohibition is in line with colonial law that encoded the dominant morality of the colonisers and the ...
The New Yorker

How Classical Is Indian Classical Dance?

Every artist confronts her past, and, in the case of the Indian dancer Bijayini Satpathy, that past is both a country and a colonial legacy. Satpathy performs Odissi, a dance style from the eastern ...
Los Angeles Times

‘RRR’s’ ‘Naatu Naatu’ made Oscars history. But South Asian dancers feel betrayed

After a milestone night for Asian and Asian American inclusion at the 95th Academy Awards, one community is still feeling the sting of being left out. Sunday’s performance of the viral heel-tapping ...
KOAT Albuquerque

Architect celebrates Indian culture through dance in Albuquerque

CULTURE. HERE’S CRISTIANA RAMOS. COSTUMES. JEWELRY. MAKEUP AND MOVEMENT. EACH STYLE DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER. AND. MOHINIYATTAM. LOTS OF CURVES AND GRACE. THERE’S A LOT OF INTERNAL MOVEMENT THAT’S ...
BroadwayWorld

Harvest Dance Celebration With The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers Honors Native American Heritage Month At Queens County Farm Museum, November 12

4 A 2025 Guide To New York City’s Under-the-Radar Holiday Highlights A celebration of American Indian dance and culture is headed to New York City's most historic working farm as the Queens County ...