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
