Keep your hand straight my child,” coddles the teacher. Little hands contort into a 2,000-year-old mudra. Fingertips touch, neurons fire, and that little brain processes neuroplasticity at a magnitude ...

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 ...

One day in late December, Gopalan Venu, more popular as G Venu sat holding his knees, his back ramrod straight, on the plush sofa of a green room, where shortly, his play, Sakuntalam, was to be ...

There may be no conversation, but their expressions say it all as the audience reacts to danseuse Methil Devika’s new choreography. With fingers that move at lighting speed, the audiences speak to her ...

Bharatanatyam, the oldest classical dance form, was originated in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Bharatanatyam is a blend of bhava, raga and tala, and was originally a temple dance performed by ...

Scientists are teaching robots the classical Indian dance Bharatanatyam to improve how machines move. (Image: UMBC) US scientists teach robots Bharatanatyam to improve machine movement. UMBC team uses ...

Mudras, or hand signs, are basically a form of meditation and control that very few people know about. Years ago when school Yoga instructors would ask us to sit in meditation, we automatically ...

In accordance with the National Education Policy’s for the first time, Indian classical music, dance, theatre, and visual arts have been incorporated into primary and middle school textbooks (Classes ...

Mudras are symbolic hand gestures used in various spiritual and cultural practices, particularly in Hinduism, Buddhism, and yoga. The word "mudra" comes from Sanskrit and can be translated as "seal," ...