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Bharatanatyam dancer of Sri Devi Nrithyalaya - Chennai (Madras), South India .

Bharatanatyam is one of the classical

 

Indian dances, other performing arts being kuchipudi, kathakali, mohiniattam, chhau, manipuri.

In this Classical dance form of Bharathanatyam, the music and costumes play and important role. In these photos you can see different traditional Indian dance costumes.

Devadasis , temple dancers, were performing nritta and abhinaya in the temples. They learnt at classical classes the history of

 

mudras, songs, and performed their arangetram dances. You can buy dvds videos of Bharatnatyam. One of famous Bharata natyam

 

dancers is actress Shobana.

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