Taste of Culture - Asian, Indian Dance Bharatanatyam

Program Type:

Culture, Performances, Workshops

Age Group:

Children, Tweens, Teens
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  • Registration will close on June 14, 2025 @ 10:00am.
  • There are 11 seats remaining.

Event Details

Jahnavi Kunchey, from the Naatya Mayura school, will introduce one of the four classic Indian dances - Bharatanatyam. 

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Bharatanatyam is an Indian classical dance form that originated in Tamil Nadu, India. 

A description of precursors of Bharatanatyam from the Natya Shastra dated around (500 BCE) and in the ancient Tamil epic Silappatikaram dated around (171 CE), while temple sculptures of the 6th to 9th century CE suggest dance was a refined performance art by the mid-1st millennium CE. Sadiraattam, which was renamed Bharatanatyam in 1932, is the oldest classical dance tradition in India.

Bharatanatyam style is noted for its fixed upper torso, bent legs, and flexed knees (Aramandi) combined with footwork, and a vocabulary of sign language based on gestures of hands, eyes, and face muscles.

 

Please wear something comfortable that allows for movement! 

This event will be held at the South Plainfield Senior Center. 

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