Ritha Devi, A 'Consummate Actress' Who Brought Indian Classical Dance To The U.S., Has Died At 92

She specialized in Odissi, a form of temple dance from the eastern Indian state of Odisha. "By the 1940s and ’50s, Odissi had fallen out of favor in India. But Ms. Devi, who began studying it in 1964, helped revive it through worldwide tours in the 1970s and as a professor in New York University’s dance department from 1972 to 1982."

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