Yet traditional Indian dancing is man's work, and the residue of the war dances, now distilled into more peaceful challenge dances, allows for good-natured competition.
Hadassah, a pioneer of Israeli and Indian dancing in America, died yesterday at St. Luke's Hospital.
Early on she took lessons in Indian classical dancing.
I am used to a more earth-bound Indian dancing, such as Bharata Natyam, the form we see most often in New York.
Mata Hari had never learned how to dance, and had never studied Indian and oriental dancing.
It was Indian dancing: poised and erotic, unlike the sombre local dances.
An example is Shaimak, very famous for teaching all kinds of Indian dancing, from traditional to modern.
He is considered one of the epic personalities of Indian dancing in the twentieth century like Uday Shankar.
He showed how Indian dancing could handle themes other than those from Hindu mythology.
In celebration of Indo-American friendship, with Indian dancing, music and free food.