Dances

Bharata Natyam

Bharata Natyam is one of the four main classical styles in India. It developed from ritualistic dances performed in the past as offerings to the deities of Hindu temples and in a more sophisticated form in the courts by solo female dancers. The traditionally conservative South maintained a style closely related to the type of dancing mirrored in temple sculpture during more than two thousand years of recorded movement in stone. The great wonder of Indian dance is that it can be both an act of...

Manipuri

Manipuri form of Dance is a gentle dance with graceful swaying movements. It is not too technical or intricate like the other classical dances of India and can be easily learnt.

Bordering Burma is Manipur - The legendary land of dance and music rich in culture, traditions and religion. The Manipuris consider themselves...

Folk

Dance has been a function of man's life, even from the primitive to the most cultured community. Perhaps before man began to speak and to paint, he began to dance. While the primitive man combined reality with deity, the cultured dance for...