Recently there is an increasing incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM), one of the most common chronic diseases, throughout the world. As it is basically a life style disorder management strategies generally focus on leading an active lifestyle. Dance which requires adoption of different body postures by movement of different muscles at a specific rhythm is an age old recreational activity which is popular today also. Therefore, dance may have some potential to influence obesity, a major risk factor of DM.                A study in this backdrop, has been undertaken to find out the impact, if any, of Bharatnatyam dancing, an Indian traditional classical dance, on the novel anthropometric markers of diabetes. Six anthropometric indices namely neck circumference, waist circumference, waist to hip ratio, waist to height ratio, waist to thigh ratio and waist to calf ratio were taken as target variables. Measurements were taken from 34 consenting adult female individuals receiving the training for a minimum five years period constituting Exercising Group (EG) and 35 female individuals of comparable age, ethnic and economic background not performing any type of regular physical exercise including dancing constituting the Non Exercising Group (NEG). It has been found EG individuals have significantly (P < 0.05) favorable values of measured anthropometric markers of DM compared to their age and sex matched NEG counterparts. It may be concluded that receiving the training and regular practicing of Bharatnatyam dancing has a favorable impact on the established anthropometric parameters of DM.