It’s a treat for Kovai as the Pongal season brings the folk arts back into focus Often looked down upon by the elite as an inferior folk art, the age-old folk dance form of Karagattam is back this ...

The folk dance, Karagattam, is hardly seen these days. It has been sidelined by classical and modern dances and is rarely seen being performed, barring at a few festive occasions. Says S.Malaisamy, ...

He was not a good dancer in school, but Fulbright scholar Aaron ‘Ted’ Samuel’s Karagattam (Tamil folk dance) performance at Gurukul on June 22 left everyone agape. One moment he was on stage dancing ...

The beats of Thappattam and Oyilattam and the popular folk dance, Karagattam would soon resonate again on Chennai streets, with the DMK government proposing to bring back the Tamil cultural festival ...

Late night cultural shows organised as part of temple festivals in rural pockets, popularly called ‘aadal paadal’ (dance and song) events, have been under a cloud for long with one set of judges in ...

Angeline who works as a contract worker in the Cuddalore education department office, also runs a dance school named Natiya Siragugal, where she teaches dance for free to financially backward children ...