DANCE is a lucid expression of human beings. Like INDIAN Culture dances are also of diverse in nature. It’s an art where you can express without words also. The most important feature in classical dances is the use of mudras or hand gestures.
Theses gestures help you to narrate a story or certain objects like weather, nature, and the inner feelings of love, care, anger etc. Dances are performed for every possible occasion, to celebrate the arrival of seasons, birth of a child, a wedding and festivals.Three best-known deities, Shiva, Kali and Krishna, are typically represented by dancing. Dance has its own passion. Indain Classical dances are used to illustrate events from the Puranas related to or describing Vishnu. Ras-lila is performed to dramatize the love scenes of Sri Krishna and the gopis in Vrindaban.
Dances are also dedicated to Lord Shiva where the two facets of Lord Shiva is portrayed – - ‘lasya’ and ‘tandava’. ‘Lasya’, the dance to reveal beauty, grace, love and all tender aspects of existence and on the other side ‘tandava’ is the anger, wild image of Lord Shiva. And dance frames it all well. In the form of the Lord of Dance, Shiva is known as Nataraj and is worshipped by all dancers.
You may not think that male dancers take to Classical Indian dance styles, but in fact there are many top-notch classical Indian dancers who are male: A few examples are the late Uday Shankar, Birju Maharaj and Pratap Pawar (Kathak), Ram Gopal, U.S. Krishna Rao, V.P. Dhananjayan, Raghunath Manet, Mavin Khoo and Dr. Francis Barboza (Bharata Natyam) Raja Reddy (Kuchipudi), Kalamandalam Gopi (Kathakali), Rajkumar Singhajit Singh (Manipuri), Kelucharan Mohapatra (Odissi).
The National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama is the national level academy for performing arts set up by the Government of India. Below is a glance of few top classical Indian dances –
- Kathak – North Indian Classical Dance – UP
- Bharatanatyam – Tamil Classical Dance
- Kuchipudi – Telugu Classical dance
- Odissi – Orissa Classical dance – devotion to lord Krishna
- Kathakali – Malayalam Classical Dance
- Manipuri – Manipur Classical Dance
- Mohiniaattam – Kerala Classical Dance
- Sattriya – Asamese Classical Dance
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