Bharatnatyam

Apart from food, nature and travel, let's go for some art ie., a dance called Bharatnatyam. One of the beautiful form of South Indian Classical dance. An dance that makes you physically and mentally strong. In order words, a dance therapy that keeps you away from all kinds of distraction. So let me introduce you to our culture, an oldest form of Indian dance called Bharatnatyam.

Let me brief about this dance. It divides into two distinct forms. One of the form in the dance is to focus on abstract hand gestures and movements, whereas in the other form the dancer has to employ complex hand signals and body language to depict emotional expressions. The gestures made by the dancer are real impressive. In a nutshell, the expressions and gestures by the dancers are unimaginable.Here the music and instruments are played live on the stage. The costumes are just excellent.

Now-a-days dancers have advanced to make further research on this subject. Few popular dancers have researched on this subject and came out with a new title dance therapy. Meaning - with the help of this dance your mind and soul will be at peace. Furthermore you become physically and mentally strong.

There is no age limit for learning this art. People from very young age to the older generation choose to learn & perform this art with interest. As the first step they choose a Guru (the Dance Teacher)to train them. The student then gives Dakshina ,( meaning a small amount of money along with a Betel leaf ) to the Guru as a token of respect. He/she places it in the feet of their master to get his blessings. Then the lesson for dance begins probably in the early hours. There are so many stages to complete until you become a full fledged dancer.

It is one of the oldest forms of Indian classical traditional dance, originated from Tamil Nadu, South India. It is based on non religious ideas and fusion themes. It is a widely recognized form of Indian dance. This dance form was prevalent in ancient times. Schools for classical dance are quite popular in our country. In most of the places, temples are considered the place where students can learn such dance and this in turn, tend to have a huge spiritual effect on the student

From a very young age, children in most household are accustomed to this culture of learning dance. Infact, they are very proud of this culture. The parents enroll the children for dance at a very young age and the children take this legacy to further generation. Academics along with dance go in par. One of the advantage of learning this art is you will have a good physique and you get involved more spiritually.

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