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DANCES OF INDIA

 

India is a country known for its diverse cultures, traditions and languages. While 6 major classical dance styles have evolved in India's past 2000 years, most of that development seems to be linked to a 2nd century B.C. treatise. This treatise, Bharata's Natyashastra, is the most important source for establishing the individuality of Indian drama (natya, meaning drama or theatre shastra, a generic term referring to any authoritative text). Its date of publication hasn't yet been agreed on, and currently lies between 200 BC and AD 200.

How does a treatise on drama contain invaluable information on dance and music? It was because ancient theatre in India was a combination of all the performing arts. Thus, an actor or an actress also had to be an expert in dance and music.

Some classical dance forms of India associate with different States are:-

Generally speaking in India there is a dance for every occasion. Only factor which divides them is the regional and cultural influences.  For instance in Punjab people do Bhangra and in Gujarat- Garba.  Dancing is an inherent part of the Indians.

PAINTINGS OF INDIA

Indian paintings traditions go back to antiquity, as is evident from the murals of Ajanta, Ellora and other frescoes, the Buddhist palm leaf manuscripts, the Jain texts and the Deccan, Mughal and Kangra schools of miniature Indian painting.

Indian Painting is an old tradition, with ancient texts outlining theories of color and unreliable accounts suggesting that it was common for households to paint their doorways or indoor rooms where guests resided.

Cave paintings from Ajanta, Bagh and Sittanvasal and temple paintings testify to a love of naturalism. Indian paintings provide an aesthetic continuum that extends from the early civilization to the present day. This form of art in India is vivid and lively, refined and sophisticated and bold and vigorous at the same time.

INDIAN SCULPTURE

The first Indian Sculpture date back to the Indus Valley civilization, where stone and bronze carvings have been discovered. The principal sculptural techniques used in India have undergone little changes throughout the ages. Carving in India has done for centuries with using varied materials such as stone or rock, wood, bronze metal, bone, and marbles also. The most preferred and less expensive materials that were used for producing Sculpture in India on wider scale are stone, metal & wood including such as oak, box and terracotta.

MUSIC OF INDIA

The music of India is one of the oldest unbroken musical traditions in the world.  It is said that the origins of this system go back to the Vedas (ancient scripts of the Hindus).  Many different legends have grown up regarding the origins and development of Indian classical music. Such legends go a long way in showing the significance that music has in defining Indian culture.

However the advent of modern historical and cultural research has also given us a good perspective on the field. This has shown that Indian music has developed within a very complex interaction between different peoples of different races and cultures. It appears that the ethnic diversity of present day India has been there from the earliest of times.

The basis for Indian music is "sangeet". Sangeet is a combination of three artforms vocal music, instrumental music and dance. Although these three artforms were originally derived from the single field of stagecraft. Today these three forms have differentiated into complex and highly refined individual artforms.

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