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FOLK
DANCES |
Kerala
has a rich verity of folk dances. They are highly
developed and reflected and the temperaments and moods
of the localities in music and costume. Nature silently
and unobstrusively has moulded these dances just as
the lives of people who ... MORE...
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MODERN
DANCES |
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Contributing
to the already rich heritage of Kerala's dance art
is the modern dance composition. Although they have
no real roots in any of the above mentioned dance
traditions they mime the characteristics of tribal,
folk and classical type of dances... MORE... |
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TRIBAL
DANCES |
The
primitive inhabitants of Kerala, the tribal people,
are only about two hundred housand now and they are
scattered in the jungles and hills of Malabar, Kochi
and Travancore.here are about 35 different type of
the tribals, chief among ...... MORE...
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CLASSICAL DANCES |
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Classical
dances are based fully or partly on the principles
and techniques embodied in the ancient Hindu scriptures
and technical texts on dance and allied arts. The
earliest of these known scripts is Bharatha's Natya
Shastra believed to have been written around the second
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NEO
- CLASSICAL DANCES |
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The
neoclassical dances of Kerala represent a delicate fusion
of the folk and classical traditions of Kerala's dances.
But the fusion is not artistically complete to the extent
that homogenous blending of the two dance forms has
not been achieved to ... MORE... |
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