What are the characteristics of Indian dance?
For Indians, dance is not only art, but also has religious connotations. Indian dance originates from the extremely pious, clean and selfless love for God. Dancers express and interpret everything in the universe through their fingers, arms, eyes, facial features, and body. Therefore, some Indian dances are only performed in temples for the gods, and Indian dances have an added layer of mystery.
Basic movements
Indian dance has a fast rhythm, and a 4-minute dance has more than 50 movements. Including gestures, eyes, inner thoughts, and facial expressions, this ever-changing posture can represent people's seven emotions and six desires, and can even represent natural scenery such as heaven, earth, mountains and rivers, and natural phenomena such as day and night.
Before dancing, keep your legs bent and bring your hands together to perform the opening ceremony.
Stretch your hands and take a step forward with your feet. Start changing hand postures in time with the music.
A "dong-dong" rhythm began to appear in the music, and the footsteps began to change.
Keep smiling.
The dance moves become faster and faster, and the hand postures change a lot.
Obvious features
The most obvious feature of Indian dance is the extremely rich body language, especially the unpredictable sign language. It is said that a dancer can perform 28 postures with one hand and 24 postures with both hands. Coupled with the cooperation of the head, neck, arms, legs and feet, the postures are countless. This ever-changing posture can represent human emotions and various actions, and can even represent natural scenery such as heaven, earth, mountains and rivers, and natural phenomena such as day and night. In short, everything in the world can be revealed in dance movements.
Indian dance also pays attention to the unity of hands, eyes, heart and mind. Simply put, gestures, eyes, inner thoughts, facial expressions and movements of other parts of the body must be organically combined to fully express the artistic conception that the dancer wants to express. Indian dance generally requires body language to reflect 8 kinds of rasas, which means "taste". The eight kinds of Rath are: Silengaar (love), Hashe (humor), Grulang (compassion), Raudur (hero), Payanag (terror), and Vipa Here (contempt), Adepud (astonishment) and Shang De (tranquility). Of course, these eight kinds of Rath also contain various changes. For example, love includes the love of parents, the love of brothers and sisters, and the love of lovers. For a dancer, it takes very hard training to perfectly embody various Ras.
Clothing
In India, generally only married women wear saris up to 6 meters long, but dancers are an exception. Even very young girls can dress up like this. Sometimes, dancers also wear PUNJABI: pants + knee-length coat + long scarf. There are many styles of pants, some are wide and some are tight. The scarf can also be tied in different ways. It can be worn around the neck during normal times and tied around the waist when dancing to increase the sense of line. PUNJABI has become a fashion, and this style of clothing became popular in Japan last year. ;