Performing at the Met was the most prestigious moment for young Sri Lankan dancers Thaji Dias and Sanduni Sulochani and Waruna Sri Hemachandra of the Chitrasena Vajira Dance Foundation. “New York is ...

An offering to the audience, the forms of Odissi and Kandyan dance, and to the pliable, athletic bodies that create this art. The choreographic brilliance of Surupa Sen and Heshma Wignaraja lay in ...

In a rare meeting of the dance forms of Odissi and Kandyan dance, India’s Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, in collaboration with the Chitrasena Dance Company will present ‘Ahuti’ in its Sri Lankan premiere.

“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 ...

If Asanga Domask entered one of those box-jumping squat competitions at a CrossFit gym, she would win — not because she has spent hours lifting weights but because she is a Sri Lankan dancer.

The South Asian Dance Equity Final Conference 2025, held in the heart of London, showcased the UK’s growing diversity in dance.

As nine other dancers sat serenely behind her, she swayed and whirled and stomped rhythmically, fine-tuning the intricate moves of a Kandyan dance, a traditional art form from Sri Lanka.

On the other hand, Kandyan Dance, the style performed by the Chitrasena company — danced here by two men and two women, but originally by men alone — is more masculine, angular and untethered ...

President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced the formation of a committee tasked with preserving and maintaining the rich cultural heritage of Kandyan dancing art. This decision was made during a meeting ...

Sri Lankan prisoners perform the maiden traditional Kandyan dance at the main jail in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The programme is part of leisure and recreational activities aimed at rehabilitating ...