Hailed a child prodigy, Mythili Prakash began her career as a dancer at the age of eight under the tutelage of her mother, renowned dancer and musician Viji Prakash. She has gone on to become the ...

Los Angeles-born Mythili Prakash is a rising international star carrying on the 3,000-year-old South Indian dance tradition. Often regarded as the most popular classic Indian dance style, Bharata ...

Indian-American dancer Prakash dismantles the myth of a female goddess granted power by men As a child, Mythili Prakash was always puzzled by the myth around the goddess Durga, who was created by a ...

The incredible splendour and rigorous discipline of Indian classical dance forms may keep even the most talented performers content to focus on perfect execution instead of innovation, but ...

Bharatanatyam dancer Mythili Prakash doesn’t just dance to dance; she dances to explore the questions that consume her. In her latest piece, “Mythili Prakash — She’s Auspicious,” the second-generation ...

Her heavily accented voice gives away that she was born and bred in USA, but once she takes to the stage, Bharatanatyam dancer Mythili Prakash, is perfection in Indian tradition personified. She ...

In the practice of meditation, ‘sahaj’ refers to the idea of blending — where the spiritual and worldly are so integrated that it is like a line drawn on water. “Earlier in my dance journey, it felt ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Stormy weather at a summer festival wraps performances of a debut and some classic works by two very distinct choreographers. By ...

At a time when dancers of what is termed “classical”, comprising traditions inherited from a hoary past, are being confronted by the “modernists”, to justify, defend and sometimes almost apologise for ...

What does female power really look like, the Indian-American dancer Mythili Prakash wonders in her latest work. It was inspired, she says, by contemplating the creation legend of the Hindu goddess ...