I NDIAN D ANCE Galina Nastya Zhuravleva Ksenya Budko Nastya

H ISTORY OF I NDIAN DANCE One of the legend has that the Goddess Parvathi taught this dance art to Usha, the daughter of demon Banasura. Later, Usha handed it to the Gopikas of the city of Dwaraka, the Lord Krishna's birth place. In reality, the Gods and the Goddesses, being dancers themselves, have been passing the art of the heavenly dance through many human channels.

T YPE OF DANCE Bharatnatyam Kathak, Kathakali Kuchipudi Manipuri Mohinattyam Odissi Sattriya

BHARATNATYAM Bharata Natyam is one of the most popular and widely performed dance styles. Its verity of movements and postures and the balanced of the rhythmic aspects take this art form in a higher level and other aspects lend itself well to experimental and fusion choreography

KATHAK This dance form origin from the groups of poets of ancient northern India, known as Kathaks, or story tellers. These poets, performing in village squares and temple courtyards, mostly specialized in recounting mythological and moral tales from the scriptures. They use to perform those stories with hand gestures and facial expressions. It was a high class theatre, using instrumental and vocal music along with stylized gestures, to telling the stories

KUCHIPUDI Kuchipudi is one of the well-known Classical Indian Dance form from Andhra Pradesh, India. The name Kuchipudi has origin from the name of a village “KUCHELAPURAM” with resident Brahmins practicing this traditional dance form at Andhra pradesh. Kuchipudi born from “BHAGAVATMELA” (a dance drama format) tradition which used to perform by the telegu Brahmins who lives in kuchelapuram. “Siddhendra yogi” (a great scholar and poet) who revolute kuchipudi from Bhagavatmela tradition. During 1960 kuchipudi started performing as a solo dance form on stage.

N ATIONAL COSTUMES FOR DANCING Everything, from the hair and make- up, to the accessorizing, has to be carefully executed. In terms of jewelry, heavy gold jewelry is the norm in almost all the classical dances.

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