Video: Kathak Dance Traditions

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Kathak dance tells a story and certain traditions and styles of dance are very important. Learn about the proper expressions, rhythms and other traditions for Kathak dancing with expert tips in this free dance lesson video.

- Kathak Dance Sentiment Expressions
- Kathak Dance Storytelling

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I'm going to talk about the tradition particularly the style. We have many Gharanas or school of dancing. So this is called Lucknow Gharana. Where the whole bodily movements come in a very graceful way. Total body we use. And the rhythms and the pure dance techniques. And the bodily expressions, what we call is Nritha, Nrithiya. So Nritha means a pure dance. Nrithiya means Abhinaya, expression, miming. So this combination of two are very important when the dancer dances to tell the story. So we come into the total understanding or total presentation of this style of dancing. This is very important to understand the beginning how the Gharana or the school of dances expanded. Today, now I'm going to present this style of dance which is called Lucknow Gharana, school of dance. The total expression comes in which rhythms and facial expressions, hand gestures. All these combinations are there. So you're going to see all these in my presentation.

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Kathak Dance Traditions

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