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Pasege what is a clasical dance

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The sculptures of yore are silent evidences of the antiquity of the Indian classical dances traditional sacred text show the close association of religion with dance. Indian dance, like other Indian arts, has always been conscious of the relationship between the human being and God.The divine concept of the cosmos and the philosophy of Indian thought pervade and form a backdrop to the dance techniques. Dance was a ritual form of worship in temples. The much denigrated devadasis in the temples, in their rituals of worship, kept alive the art form, till a cultural revival brought the dances out of the temples into the theatres of the present.

The principles of Indian classical dance—whatever the style—derive from the Natyashastra (c. 2nd century AD) by Bharatamuni. Natya includes dance, music and drama. Bharatamuni traces the origin of the art form to Brahma. It was Brahma who, on perceiving the growing desire, greed, jealousy, anger, and misery in the world, went into meditation and created a fifth Veda, viz., the Natyaveda, representing the essence of the existent four Vedas.

The intellectual content of the Rig-Veda, the music of the Samaveda, abhinaya or mime from the Yajurveda and the rasa from the Atharvaveda have been brought together in the Natyaveda to embody moral and spiritual truths. Thus the art form is meant not just to entertain but also to instruct and inspire discipline and righteousness.

The dancing Shiva, Nataraja, represents in his art creation, preservation, destruction, release from bondage and the cycle of life and death. Parvati, learning the art from Shiva, in turn taught it to the people of the earth. Whatever the origin, dance is often considered to be a ‘complete art’, at least a composite art enfolding in its range other fine arts—music, of course, besides elements of sculpture, poetry and drama.