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Uttar Pradesh Folk Dance
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UTTAR PRADESH FOLK DANCE
Uttar Pradesh is an Indian state with an upscale and diverse cultural heritage. According to Indian mythology, it also boasts to be the state where God Shri Ram and Krishna were born. The cities like Varanasi and Mathura have a historical past of quite 2000 years and have been the incubators of several art and dance forms. several of the major folk dances of Uttar Pradesh are mentioned below:
BHARATNATYAM Bharatnatyam is one of the indian classical dance. which originated in indian subcontinent in ancient period.This dance form also called dasiattam or sadir . This performing art belongs to south indian state Tamilnadu , tanjor and other region. Thia dance form symbolizes the element of fire . BHARATNATYAM - BHA- BHAV (emotion) RA- RAGA (music) TA- TAAL (rhythm) NATYAM- SANSKRIT WORD FOR DRAMA AND DANCE Abhinaya darpan and sangeet ratnakar guide the technique and grammar of body movements. This dance form mentioned in kannada text manasollasa written by someshwara iii , also found in ancient tamil epic SILAPPATIKARAM . Bharatnatyam found in natyashastra, ( hindu text of performance arts.) written by scholar Bharatmuni. Brihaddeshwara temple was a major centre for bharatnatyam since 1000 CE. Gopurams of chdambaram display th
KUCHIPUDI DANCE The kuchipudi was originated from the place named 'KUCHIPUDI' in krishna districtof ANDHRA PRADESH, around 3rd century bce, it has a very lon tradition of dance-drama. It was popular under the generic name of YAKSHAGANA. it's origin BHAGAVATHULU dance in temple. CULTURE OF DANCE- kuchipudi dance has a speciality called- 'TARANGAM ' in which the dancer performs on the top of the brass plates. And sometimes balances some pot on the head. This makes the dance form extremely unique. Kuchipudi gradually developed ad a solo dance form and today we can see both male and female performing it. Both lasya and tandav predominates. The solo items are- 'Balgopala taranga'- (dance on the edged of brass plate with a pitcher full of water on head) , Manduka shabdam ( story of frog maiden), and Tala chitra nritya (drawing picture with dancing toes)
MOHINIYATTAM DANCE Mohiniyattam means 'mohini', the celestial enchantress of the hindu mythology, is the classical solo dance form of kerala. Mohiniyattam represents the element of Air. According to a puranic story, Lord vishnu took on the guise of a 'mohini' to seduce the asuras, both in connection with churning of the ocean and episode of the slaying of bhasmasur. Mohiniyattam is a lasya predomonates. Mohiniyattam can be found in the texts Vyavaharamala written in 1709 by Mazhamagalam narayanan namputiri and in ghoshayatra, written later by great poet kunjan namiar. DANCE SPECIALITIES- It is mostly a solo performance by girls with circular movements, subtle expressions, and delicate footsteps. Movements in mohiniyattam have been borrowed from nangiar koothu and female falk dance the tiruvatirakali and kaikottikoli. This dance has elements of bharatnatyam( grace and elegance) and kathakali (vigour) b
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