Bharatanatyam
Bharatnatyam
is a classical dance from Tamil Nadu in South India. It is also known
as art of temple dances. NatyaShastra is the main book written about
the dancing style of Bharatnatyam. Bharatnatyam works on the lines of
NatyaShastra.
It is considered to be the fire - dance, depicting the
mystic presence of the fire God in the human body. Thus a Bharatnatyam
dancer depicts the movements of a dancing flame. Contemporary
Bharatnatyam is rarely practiced as Natya Yoga, a sacred Hindu
meditational tradition. |