There are many types of Indian dance, broadly categorized into classical, folk and Bollywood dance (film dance). According to the audience points, classical dance in the contemporary elite art, folk dance and Bollywood dance is biased towards mass entertainment. Indian dance is not belly dance, the two places of origin, dance style, dress, acquisition methods and purposes are very different. And for Indians, belly dance is also a foreign dance. Indian dance classical dance has a long history, for Indians, dance is not only art, more religious meaning. Classical dance originated from the unparalleled devotion to God clean and selfless love, dancers by gestures, eyes, facial expressions, body performance and interpretation of religious stories in all things. In ancient times, Classical Dance was performed by God's slaves, and was a dance performed in Hindu temples for the gods; in modern times, after the "Classical Dance Revival Movement", it has been transformed into a serious classical art. A classical dancer needs to be very strict and proper attitude, after years of rigorous training, in order to obtain the qualification to perform on stage. Therefore, Indian classical dance is also known as the "Indian ballet". An important element of Indian dance is the hand position. There are about 100 kinds of hand postures, each of which has a specific meaning, some representing beauty, some representing peace, some representing anger, and some even indicating ugliness. Indians believe that hand gestures are symbols of communication between humans and gods, and that different gods prefer different hand gestures.
In fact, the development of Indian dance can not be separated from Bollywood, Bollywood is the birthplace of Indian movies, it is said that the annual output is more than the United States of America's Hollywood. CCTV6 has translated some of the Bollywood movies. The famous dance educator Jin Shan Shan commented: If you want to be a star in India, acting is not the first thing, dancing is the first thing. Bollywood produces movies are song and dance movies, which have a very large number of dance clips, if you want to experience Indian dance, the easiest way is to watch Indian movies.