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Traditional Indian Dance - The Spiritual Art of India | A reource on Traditional Indian Dance | | Traditional Indian Dance - The Spiritual Art of India Indian dance cannot be isolated from the art of literature,
painting sculpture and music. Indian dance has a unique body of myths
and legend to support the view that the art occupied and important place
in the society and religion of the people of India. The dance styles of Traditional Indian Dance are
known as Bharathanatiyam, KathaKali , Kuchipodi , Manipuri, Orrissi ,
and Kathak of each evolved it's own individual vocabulary of movement. | |
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| | Resources on Traditional Indian Dance - The Spiritual Art of India | | | | Spiritual Art: Traditional Indian Dance Art is collaboration between God and Man, raising him to the exclusive band of creators and taking him deeply within and around his hard work. It is a unique result of a unique temperament with its beauty derived from mutable disconcert of his environment. When early man stenciled an impression of the dark of wall of the cave, he was deliberately, vision and creation.
This story of art has been largely the story of man’s continuing search of meaningful marks for shape, movement and image that can most eloquently express his experience of the inner and outer world, resulting in enlargement and perpetuation. Such a man, bestowed with reason, had always been a grater thinker, when absorbed in his surroundings he was pondering, imaging and visualizing the shape of things to come about the domestic carvings and comforts in life.
Creation motivated by different desires resulted knowingly or unknowingly in chronicling his present for the future and preserving them for posterity.
These instincts found their vent in different forms and in fact they were the foundation of the birth of fine arts. Born thus, the arts improved from stage to stage and from age to age in different forms and styles, from the initial crude lines to the superfine form and movement.
In ancient India, fine arts of dance, painting and sculpture were developed and inspired by religion. All arts like all stages of life and embodied in religion. Indian art is life suffixed by religion and philosophy. Art was dedicated to providing objects of worship in a life ordered by faith. Indian art of all the periods has been close to life both divine and traditional.
The theory of Indian dance cannot be isolated from the arts of literature, sculpture, painting and music. Human nature with its joy and sorrow is depicted by means of representation through dance.
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The main spiritual traditions of South Indians have included both Shaivism or Shaivite philosophy, and Vaishnavism, which are both branches of Hinduism, although Jain philosophy had been influential in Southern India several centuries earlier. Shravanabelagola in Karnataka is a popular pilgrim center for Jains.
Coorg, in Karnataka is home to one of the largest Buddhist monasteries in the country and provides sanctuary to Tibetan Buddhist monks tha ...
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| | | | Traditional Indian Dance - The Spiritual Art of India: Encyclopedia II - South India - South Indian worldview and culture South Indians are racially, linguistically and culturally different from their North Indian compatriots although their cultures have influenced each other at various points in history.
Whether or not the existing proto Dravidian culture was supplanted by invading Aryan nomads during the twilight of the Indus Valley Civilization or whether they simply coexisted and eventually merged to form another culture is a su ...
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| | | | Traditional Indian Dance - The Spiritual Art of India: Encyclopedia - Circle dance Circle dance, is the most common name for a style of dance usually done in a circle without partners to musical accompaniment. It became popular in the alternative, feminist and new age aspects of western culture in the 1980s and 1990s and continues today.
The circle is probably the oldest known dance formation. It is found in the dances of many cultures, including ancient Greece (chorea), African, Eastern European, Irish Celtic, Catalan (sardana), South American and North American Indian. Circle dance mixes traditional folk dances, mainly from European or Near-Eastern sources, with recently choreographed ...
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| | | | Traditional Indian Dance - The Spiritual Art of India: Encyclopedia II - South India - South Indian history South India has been at the crossroads of the ancient world, linking the Mediterranean world and the far-east. The Southern coastline from Karwar to Kodungalloor was the most important trading shore in the Indian sub-continent. This brought about a lot of intermingling of the natives with the traders.
The South Indian coast of Malabar and the tamil people of the Sangam age had trade with the Graeco Roman world. They were in contact with the Phoenicians, Ro ...
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South India - South Indian music.
The music of the South Indian people is called as Carnatic music. It includes sensuous rhythmic and structured music by composers like Purandara Dasa, Kanaka Dasa, Tyagaraja, Mysore Vasudevachari and Swathi Thirunal.
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South India - Literature and philosophy.
South India has an independent literary tradition going back over 2000 years. The first known literature of South India are the poetic Sangams, which were written i ...
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| | | | Traditional Indian Dance - The Spiritual Art of India: Encyclopedia II - South India - The land South India is a vast triangular peninsula, bounded on the west by the Arabian Sea, and on the east by the Bay of Bengal. The Vindhya and Satpura ranges and the Narmada River are the traditional boundary between northern and southern India. South of the Satpuras, at the center of the peninsula, is the Deccan plateau, defined by the Western Ghats mountain range, which runs along the western edge of the peninsula, and the Eastern Ghats along the eastern edge. The great rivers of south India, the Godavari, Krishna, and Kaveri (Cauvery), rise in the Western Ghats and flow across the Deccan and through gaps in the Easter ...
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| | | | Traditional Indian Dance - The Spiritual Art of India: Encyclopedia II - South India - The people South Indians are primarily Dravidians by racial stock. They are united by the Dravidian language family. It is a distinct language family which includes Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Tulu, among many others. Tamil is considered to be closest to the Proto-Dravidian and one of classical languages of the world. Telugu and Kannada are also derived from proto-Dravidian, but with a greater admixture of words derived from Sanskrit. Malayalam was derived from Tamil in the late 13th century, with much less Sanskrit than Telugu and Kannada (although written Malay ...
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| | | | Traditional Indian Dance - The Spiritual Art of India: Encyclopedia II - South India - The economy The people are largely agrarian, dependent on monsoons, as are most people in India. Some of the main crops cultivated in South India include paddy, sorghum, millet, pulses, cotton, chilli, and ragi. South India was and still is the "promised land" as far as spice cultivation is concerned. Areca, coffee, pepper, tapioca, and cardamom are widely cultivated on the Nilgiri Hills and Coorg. But frequent droughts in Northern Karnataka, Rayalaseema and Telangana regions are leaving farmers debt-ridden, forcing them to sell their livestock a ...
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| | | | Traditional Indian Dance - The Spiritual Art of India: Encyclopedia II - Indian folk dances - RUK MAR NACHA ORISSA This is a rudimentary form of the more evolved Chhau dance of West Bengal. Performed in the Mayurbhanj district of Orissa, it has its base in the martial arts tradition. The dance is a stylized mock battle in which two groups of dancers armed with swords and shields, alternatively attack and defend themselves with vigorous movements and elegant stances.
Especially notable is the accompanying music, noted for its rhythmic complexities and vigorous percussion. The instruments include 'Mahuri' - a double reeded instrument, 'Dhola' - a barrel shaped two-sided drum, 'Dhumsa' - a hem ...
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| | | | Traditional Indian Dance - The Spiritual Art of India: Encyclopedia II - Indian folk dances - KARMA MUNDA BIHAR The traditional dance gets its name from the Karma tree, which stands for fortune and good luck. The ceremony starts with the planting of the trees. Dancers, both men and women, form circles around it and dance with their arms around each other's waists. As the drum beats get quicker and louder, the dancers gain momentum and generally end in an uproarious tumult.
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| | | | Traditional Indian Dance - The Spiritual Art of India: Encyclopedia II - Culture of Bangladesh - Music dance and drama Music and dance style of Bangladesh may be divided into three categories, namely, the classical, folk and the modern.
The classical style has been influenced by other prevalent classical forms of music and dances of the Indian subcontinent, and accordingly show some influences dance forms like Bharata Natyam and Kuchipudi. The folk and tribal music and dance forms of Bangladesh are of indigenous origin and rooted to the soil of Bangladesh. Several dancing styles, in vogue in the north-eastern part of the Indian subcontinent, like Monipuri and Santal dances, are also practiced in Bangladesh ...
See also:Culture of Bangladesh, Culture of Bangladesh - Music dance and drama, Culture of Bangladesh - Festivals and celebrations, Culture of Bangladesh - Traditional ceremonies, Culture of Bangladesh - Weddings, Culture of Bangladesh - Religion in Bangladesh, Culture of Bangladesh - Culinary tradition Read more here: » Culture of Bangladesh: Encyclopedia II - Culture of Bangladesh - Music dance and drama |
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| | | | Traditional Indian Dance - The Spiritual Art of India: Encyclopedia II - Culture of Bangladesh - Music, dance and drama Music and dance style of Bangladesh may be divided into three categories, namely, the classical, folk and the modern.
The classical style has been influenced by other prevalent classical forms of music and dances of the Indian subcontinent, and accordingly show some influences dance forms like Bharata Natyam and Kuchipudi. The folk and tribal music and dance forms of Bangladesh are of indigenous origin and rooted to the soil of Bangladesh. Several dancing styles, in vogue in the north-eastern part of the Indian subcontinent, like Monipuri and Santal dances, are also practiced in Banglades ...
See also:Culture of Bangladesh, Culture of Bangladesh - Music, dance and drama, Culture of Bangladesh - Festivals and celebrations, Culture of Bangladesh - Traditional ceremonies, Culture of Bangladesh - Weddings, Culture of Bangladesh - Religion in Bangladesh, Culture of Bangladesh - Culinary tradition Read more here: » Culture of Bangladesh: Encyclopedia II - Culture of Bangladesh - Music, dance and drama |
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| | | | Traditional Indian Dance - The Spiritual Art of India: Encyclopedia II - Culture of Nepal - Music & dance The legend states dances in the Indian subcontinent originated in the abode of Lord Shiva - the Himalayas, and the Himalayan Kingdome of Nepal - where he performed the tandava dance, and this indicates that dance traditions of Nepal are of very ancient origin. With altitudes and the ethnicity, dances of Nepal slightly change, in style as well as in the costume. Accompanying music and musical instruments also change in tune with the themes, which revolve round topics like crop harvestings, marriage rites, war stories, a lonely girl’s yearning for her love, and several other ...
See also:Culture of Nepal, Culture of Nepal - Tribes & ethnic groups, Culture of Nepal - High Himalayas, Culture of Nepal - Temperate zone, Culture of Nepal - Terai region, Culture of Nepal - Music & dance, Culture of Nepal - Art & Craft, Culture of Nepal - Folklores & folktales, Culture of Nepal - Languages & literatures, Culture of Nepal - Religions & philosophy, Culture of Nepal - Festivals & celebrations, Culture of Nepal - Food and drink Read more here: » Culture of Nepal: Encyclopedia II - Culture of Nepal - Music & dance |
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OTHER RELEVANT RESOURCES | | | | | Paneurhythmy Panuerhythmy is based on a deep knowledge of the Laws of energy, radiation, frequency and the correlation between tone, form, movement, color, geometry and an idea. Movements correspond to tones, and as we dance the concepts of giving, receiving and renewal, we allow the Earth and Cosmos to do the same. Through us, the Earth opens her portals, her points of power, to give of her own energies, to receive of the Light. The Cosmos itself receives and is blessed and gives more.
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| | | | | Spiritual Dance Spiritual dancing is a cross cultural phenomenon, a testament to its power and authenticity. Cultures from every continent on this planet simultaneously embraced unique dance forms. Purpose in dancing is to `enter the consciousness' or `become the spirit'. Dance rituals Connect us to Spirit and empower us with abilities such as courage and compassion, as well as reveal insights into the future. Trance dance, an ancient shamanic practice, is a healing vehicle through which people can commune with their Spirit.
Dance could be seen as a moving prayer and a doorway to the soul or `spirit within' and if you dance into the state of ecstatic trance you will connect completely to the healing powers of Holy Spirit.
"To the universe belongs the dancer, who ever does not dance does not know what happens."
Jesus Christ, from the Round Dance of the Cross, Acts of John, 95, 16-17, New Testament Apocrypha, Henneck-Schneemelcher Philadelphia 1964 Volume 2.299 Read more here: » Spiritual Dance |
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