The Indo-American Arts Council will be sponsoring its second annual dance festival, Erasing Borders: Festival of Indian Dance 2009, from August 14 to 20. There will be workshops for adults including Bollywood, Kathak, and Body Conditioning, and an interactive workshop for children that teaches them three types of classical Indian dance.

For those of you whose feet will remain firmly planted on the floor, you can still experience the event by watching professionals bring their dance to the stage. For dance and theater buffs, this year’s festival also offers a dance-theater performance of “Noor,” an Indian pop/hip-hop dance about the life of spy princess Noor Inayat Khan.

At the start of this year’s festival will be a tribute to Dr. Rohini Bhate, a Kathak dancer and scholar who passed away last fall at the age of 84, leaving behind five decades of dance performance and teaching.

A full list of dates and locations for workshops, lectures, and performances can be found at