because it is considered to be [good luck] in Indian culture." The dance usually begins with an opening routine called the namaskaram. "Dancers have to bang the floor to tell Mother Earth they ...

The LA County Holiday Celebration exemplifies Los Angeles as a cultural pinnacle and trendsetter where every voice is ...

"I never saw Indian girls dancing on mainstream television, so to be doing now, an Indian dance, on a platform like ... her performing the couple's choice routine to a Bollywood song.

The children learn a dance specially devised for them using folk-dance steps and gesture from Northern India.