“We still have prosperous harvesting rituals with dance and drumming and communal events,” Mantillake said. Mantillake trained in Kandyan Dance, a traditional Sri Lankan dance native to Kand ...

Pin-drop silence just after the first event, followed in a moment by deafening applause. Two acclaimed Indian dancers had just performed a Kandyan dance, having been under the tutelage of veteran ...

Most often celebrated as one of the first female Kandyan dancers, Vajira who turned 89 on March 15 is rarely recognised for her other contributions to the dance form on stage Histories of the ...

Vajira made a historic contribution to Kandyan dance, once a little-known ritual form of Sri Lanka’s central highlands that became a performance art in the 1950s. It was her pioneering effort in ...

dance and performance gender, ethnicity and nationalism religion and ritual disability, performance and culture South Asia, especially India and Sri Lanka Prof. Reed has conducted field research on ...

Kiri Ukkuwa was Gunaya’s father, but he was a better farmer than a dancer. So Gunaya studied dancing under his father’s brother Suramba, who was a great Kandyan dancer in keeping with his father’s ...

Sri Lanka’s cultural presence was marked by the vibrant artistry of Kandyan dance. Dancers, adorned in traditional attire and moving to the pulse of ancestral drums, brought the spirit of Kandy’s ...

“It is a great opportunity to present Sri Lankan dance to the international audience,” he says. Though a classically trained Kandyan dancer, Chandana has brought in innovations to the dance ...

Dancers from India and Sri Lanka are building bridges across the Indian Ocean, tapping historic and elemental connections. Bharatanatyam and Odissi are just a boat-ride away from Jaffna.

The National Women’s Dance Troupe of Sri Lanka practices for their performance of an extremely rare Pahim Path Mangalya dance on Aug. 9. Photo: Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal ...

Bhoomija presents a dance choreography, Ahuti in Bengaluru this weekend. The dance will feature the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble and The Chitrasena Dance Company from Sri Lanka. Ahuti, a ...