The origin of Bharathanatyam
The origin of Bharathanatyam Dance has an important status in the society, it is not only a medium of entertainment but also a medium which depicts several facts of life in a beautiful aesthetic way. "GEETHAM AVADHARAYA, VADYAM AVADHARAYA , NRITHYAM AVADHARAYA" The above words mean classical music, classical instruments and classical dance respectively were offered as prayer in the process of worshiping of god in temples. Bharathanatyam is a dance form which originated in Tamil Nadu , south of India . Tanjavoor or Tanjore district of tamil Nadu is regarded as the mother of many other classical dance forms of India and it has a temple named Bruhadishvara- which is the temple of lord Shiva where thousands of Bharathanatyam dancers assemble on Shivarathri in the a holy Shrine to dance. History states that this art form...