Monday, April 14, 2008

Arts of the theater: Several forms of the dance of India

The Indians have created several forms of the dance to celebrate the occasions, joy expresses and more important like means to adore to its Gods and goddesses. The famous caves of Ajanta and Ellora and many other monuments reflect this culture through the sculptures enrolled in the walls. God Nataraja is God of the dance whose sculptures represent dance and triumph obtaining on the evil. There is an enormous variety of diverse forms of the dance in the India based on the geographic location and the socioeconomic condition of states and carious regions.

Bharata Natyam prospered in you cut and the real temples of old India. Finally in century XIX certificó like interpretative arts was codified and. The quartet of Tanjore did a great contribution to this form of the dance doing the great musical compositions. Bharata Natyam also was practiced by Devadasi that was the women who dedicated their life to the temple and used to the dance please to God and the goddesses like part of religious rituals. Bharata Natyam gives an opportunity so that the man and the female put in evidence their talents as dancers. As the fleeting time by people began to recognize the talent and to present/display it in one more a greater platform. Rukmini Devi Arundale and E Krishna Iyer were the outstanding figures that were responsible in the education for this Classical Art. Many universities grant to degree in the graduation and the graduation of the post in Bharata Natyam. The field is very elaborated due to the ample degree of the movement, the positions, the face expressions and the streamlined MIME.

Kathak is the form of dance consolidated by the nomads of northern India. The word “Kathak” means narrator whereas his executant represents the argument with the aid of face expressions and gestures of hand. The dancers use bells or “Ghungru” in their feet and with his footwork used to synchronize with the Indian classic instruments of support such as Pakhawaj or Tabla at a speed of the lightning. The demonstrations were received in square from the temple and the village. The subjects of these dances were histories of epics mythological morals and. The song and instrumental music added to the realistic illusion of history. During the era of the lampholders giant this form of art gained the recognition and animated to the dancers to be realized in real palaces. In order to satisfy to the affectionate rules with the art more effort it was made to refine the art and more dramatic aspects and rates were added. You would bathe, Jaipur and Luckhnow is the broths of culture of this art refining.

Kuchipudi fed in a Kuchelapuram village of the state of Andhra Pradesh that is located in the south. This form of the dance is famous by fast his footwork and “sculptural” turns of the body. It is a class of form of the dance where the dancing one speaks some dialogs and in other times it uses face expressions and gestures of hand.

It is being honest by UNESCO as the “masterpiece of the oral and intangible inheritance of the humanity” Koodiyattam the oldest form of Indian classic dance. It is the traditional dance of the sánscrito theater of Kerala. The dramatists prominent sánscritos that dedicated their life to this form of art are Bhasa, Kalidaas, Harsha, and Saktibhadra. The suit of the artist is really attractive and exceptional. They stick in artificial beard and the enormous hips and the maquillaje, also, that is very noisy and the whole face is painted.

The most attractive form of the dance of India is Manipuri. It prospered in the state of the northeast of India, Manipur that means an Earth jewel. According to Gods folklore they drained a lake to make a place to dance and due to this dance of Manipuri it has gotten to be an integral part of the daily life as well as important occasions like birthday, the holy wedding, and ceremonies. The wearing down of the dancers indicated by means of length lights the skirts with beautiful adornments and the main lead that decrees the paper of God Krishna uses the high crown of the peacock that touches a flute whose to harmony beautiful girls dance attractive. Another version of this form of art implies Pung Cholam or the dance of the drum, where the dancers dance by a sum of the drums or pung with the fast turns that take to move jumps.

Odissi originated in Orissa, a state geographically located in means of India. The two important facets of this form of the dance are Abhinaya, a streamlined MIME that implies face expressions and the gestures of hand and the other are Nritta or the non-representational dance, where the ornamental golpeteos imagine to use the movements of the body.

India is a rich country in inheritance and culture. Except the aforesaid variety of arts of the theater, the other are Chhau, Kathakali, Mohiniattam, and Satriya. Along with these instruments of the forms of the dance such as flute, Pakhawaj, Sitar, Santoor, Sarangi, Sarod, Shehnai, Table, and Vine has unfolded to reach high altitude of the perfection.

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