"Sattriya, a dance from the far eastern state of Assam in India,… emerges from a five hundred years old comprehensive …"

"Sattriya is revealed as a living, evolving tradition, rooted in the philosophy and vision of saint-preacher-reformer-…"

"The most unique aspect of the arts that are nurtured at the sattras (literally meaning Holy areas) is that they are p…"

"like many of the other Classical Dance forms of India, [it] has been extracted from a larger body of theatrical pract…"

"The Regional Arts’ Authority, the Assam Academy for the Arts, (Assam Sangeet Natak Akademi) described it as Sattriya,…"

"The origin of thought and movement lie, in the case of Sattriya, you have to locate it in the deeply rooted, shared b…"

"With the exception of the Ojapali (this is one of the pre-Vaishnav dance forms that the Vaishnav culture drew from) i…"

"This particular dance form is ‘non-texted’. Teaching and pedagogy has been through oral transmission, and memory has …"

"For centuries, when it remained a preserve of men, it followed a careful stance and kinetic demarcation between the s…"

"The dance style is sensitive to the world, the musical note and the rhythmic beat. It treats the body in halves, with…"