29 April 2015 Dance- Evolution to Innovation

29 April 2015

Dance-   Evolution to Innovation

Dances that evolved to express joy

Folk and tribal dances on every occasion

Celebrating the arrival of seasons

Birth of a child, wedding and festivals

Even dances around the final good byes

Dances that are simple, steps and movement

Dance bursting with verve and vitality

Performances that make stories marvelous

Songs that go along with the dance moves

Accompanied by artists on the instruments

Various dances with specific costumes

Flamboyant and extensive dance jewelry

From just the evolution of joyful dancing

To innovating ways of telling stories

Of the improving mankind and tales

Skills and imaginations influences

The dancers and their dance performances

Started with the dancing statues of Mohenjadaro

And Devadasis in our Kind and queens courts

Bharatnatyam that started as dasi attam

And Kuchipudi as a Brahmin story telling

Half Aryan and Half Dravidian Kathakali

Katha meaning story telling with Kathak

Gandharvas and Goddess of Dawn by Manipuri

Temples and Religion depicted in Odissi

Indian fusion with broader acceptance

Respect for cultural diversity and collaboration

Exploring expressive potential and traditions

Contemporary styles with modern dance

Inspired and equally acquired with meaning

Express new forms, with social systems

Culture, needs, exclusivity and audience

Dance will continue growing in dimensions

Of beauty, form and truth in expressions

Dancers will continue to give more and more

To the sentiments of love and the art

Dancers both women and men will make

The art live on for years and years to come