Dance: All About It

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Dance speaks through movements, gestures, postures and expressions. The dancer's body transforms into a moving sculpture which tells us the stories of the world. It takes us on a journey of characters, incidents and places. This process took ages to develop and now this is the most amazing feature of dance. It has added costumes, make up, setting of stage and lighting to make its own dictionary. In this process, Indian classical dances have gone through a tremendous change and it is still evolving. Indian classical dance, in it's ancient form, follows scriptures for the reference. The greatest and most followed is Natyashastra which almost works as a dictionary for dancers. It describes hand gestures (hastas), postures (standing, sitting positions, movements, etc), facial expressions and has references about costume, setting the stage and also the positions of characters on stage. Mostly, the dancer develops a piece of dance from the very basic word to word meaning to t...

Yes! You read it right! The dancer knows number of movements of his/her style. The training and rehearsals have given him/her a knowledge and sense of beauty, appropriateness and sense to follow the flow of music. Yet, every dancer is constantly searching for a perfect point of movement. This is perhaps because of that human instinct which looks for a perfect bliss. In a performance, there is one moment which gives this bliss to the dancer as well as the audience. So, both of them are on the same journey to search this perfect point. This journey starts from the point when the dancer starts choreographing it. The composition should be felt, one should get involved into it and compose a set of appropriate movements. Now this is a real difficult task. Because, one has to pay attention whether the movement fits to the rhythm, flow, emotion, at the same time it should look graceful, should maintain fluidity and the dancer should be comfortable with it. If a choreographer is differe...