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Colorful City Night View｜Mind Blowing Acrylic Painting Step by Step #670｜Satisfying Art ASMR

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Hola again, I'm goanna tell you a review of a song by Imagine Dragons and it is believer. In this song lyrics It is saying How much grateful I'm to my eyes and ears etc. It also say that don't feel the pain instead enjoy it. Pain has make me believer because now I'm able to knew how I'm the winner of my own world. So......... listen song and enjoy.

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Today I'm very exited and happy and I know that all children would love their birthday and that what I love to....... well it's going to be a very happy day. But my friends and relatives has prepared a surprise. And I don't know. So I'll be celebrating my birthday around 6 or 7 pm. And after That It would be pretty late so............. I'll share you my whole routine tomorrow. Hope you enjoy.........

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Hola, Today I'm goanna tell you about The fight song by Rachel Platten. So this is very inspiring song for me because see it's lyrics. It says that even I am sick and I cannot do the things I like to do, so don't  lose your hope. The same tells this song. SO DONT LOSE HOPE AND SING THIS SONG AND ALSO LISTEN.

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Let's get some environment fun using this link -
https://young.downtoearth.org.in/
Check out and have fun

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As we know that god is our loving father. He is powerful and he can do anything. Not is impossible for GOD! He can helps us in everything and at all times. Few times you think that if it is the case why do we fail? Why many of us don't get jobs. Due to this people often think that God is unkind. But we know that god is our loving father and he is kind. He loves all of his children. He cannot be unkind to anyone. We cannot say that these people don't ask  for god's help. Infact, they pray more than we do! The reason they are like this is that-  they don't help themselves. We must help ourselves. For example- If you don't study how will you get good marks. If we don't find for jobs how would we will employed. If you don't do you work, god will don't do his work. Infact, success is 99% perspiration whereas 1% is inspiration. We  must remember that God help them who help  themselves. When we neglect our part, god neglect his part.
Thank You for you're time
I hope you like it!

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Hello everyone! Today I Aastha Rana want to give a short speech on "Bad luck day "

So, most of you have sometimes bad day or good day. When you wake up in the morning you always hope that ' I hope today it would be a good day for me'. It happens sometimes that you hope for a good day and outcome is the opposite of what you wish. Sometimes a glass of lemonade is spilled on your Clothes and your class is starting in  2 minutes  and you need a quick shower.

And today I'm going to tell you HOW TO MAKE YOUR BAD DAY GOOD!

1. Always don't anger on others.

2.  In your any journal write what happened with you whole day because when you write your feelings somewhere after a few minutes you feel happy.

3.  Take a deep breathe and calm yourself if any type of bad situation come before you.

4.  Never feel sad, watch some funny cartoons.

5. Share  your feeling with someone, It is one of the best way to make you feel happy

STAY HAPPY AND SAFE

And also thanks for reading

By Aastha Rana

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Check out my friend Avani Padlet and her amazing paintings, you're are simply awesome

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OMG! Today Nearly it was going to five when I received my favorite gift books but 1 or 2 but 6  books that is so amazing...... As I love books my cousins give it to me
They are -
Thea stilton and the mystery in Paris by Elisabetta Dami
Thea stilton and the mystery in the orient express by Elisabetta Dami
Harry potter and the chamber of secrets by J.K Rowling
The lighting thief by Rick Riordan
Ickabog by J.K  Rowling
I would love to read them
Thank you for giving me such a lovely gift
Thanks from Aastha

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Acrylic Painting on Canvas｜Moon & Cat｜Satisfying Step by Step #445｜Painting ASMR

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Google doodle pays tribute to Italian astrophysicist Margherita Hack-
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Check Pattern Winter Landscape｜Acrylic Painting on Canvas Step by Step #514｜Satisfying ASMR

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Kathak Tutorial - Lesson 3 - For first year students

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Google doodle honors Shirple Temple also known as "Miss little Hollywood" -
https://g.co/doodle/hg4yqnz

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Hello, Today I will tell you why we should reuse plastic..
First....... You need to know what is plastic. Plastic is a wide range of synthetic or semi- synthetic. Plastic has polymer as it's main ingredient. It is a thing that we use in our day-to-day life.
So, we all know that in some fruit juice bottles are made of plastic, we use plastic bags to carry our things, plastic straws, shampoos in plastic bottles and there are many more things we use plastic. And when those things are finished we just do a very difficult work  throw them. Now, you must be wondering why I said throwing a difficult work  but it's a easy work. Actually, have you ever wonder  how difficult is  to recycle them. Yes, recycling is a  good thing and it is  rule  in one of the 3Rs but not every time we should recycle. As we know that plastic bottles can be used in such a way that after washing their main thing inside  those bottles, we could still use them in such creative and fun way, that they could be created to another kind of things we use in our daily life. For ex.
1. Take a plastic bottle
2. Wash the bottle until the liquid or any kind of matter is washed out.
And then find some interesting way to create your bottle more amazing!
We can create pencil stands using bottles and also we can create some decorative piece of art using them.
REUSING them  brings -
- creativity
- reduce green house gases
- save environment
and there are many more things we could learn from reusing.
FACT -
You know that we always say reduce, reuse and recycle in not a proper way. We all say maybe like-
Recycle, reduce and reuse
or like
reuse, recycle and reduce
BUT WE SHOULD ALWAYS SAY
REDUCE, REUSE AND RECYCLE
because if we already have that thing in our home made from plastic and you're buying it again or some other reasons are there - We should do not buy them as they are made from plastic. Which means reduce.
Then if we have something empty and made from plastic and you're throwing it. So, first see that if we could use them again, which means reuse.
And if we are not able to reuse them in anyhow, then recycle
SO - REDUCE, REUSE AND RECYCLE

Thank you

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Hola, today (05-06-2021) is world environment day. Today we all should take a pledge -
We will  not pollute our Earth,
We will always follow the 3Rs,
which are Reuse, reduce and recycle,
We will not throw used plastic cans, bags  and things made out of plastic,
We will reuse them or throw in recycling bins,
We will use each and every pages  made from wood,
We will use our pens and pencils carefully,
We will not hurt animals instead we will show our love towards them,
We will not waste a single drop of water,
We will keep our earth  safe from global warming,
We will always do our best to save Nature

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check out my friend jiya's padlet

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Alan Walker, K-391 & Emelie Hollow - Lily (Lyrics)

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Learn Kathak Online by Guru Pali Chandra

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Anga: The Correct Body Posture  | Learn Kathak Position | Videos for beginners | Lesson 2/222

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My first advance gift came  from amazon. It came today. Time was 3:50. I don't know what's in that present. So, to get a little bit of information I call to my big sister who gave it to me. She gave me 4 clues. They were the following -
1. Things every girl like them
2. It is multicolor
3. The box consists of 15-19 stuff
4. The box consist of a paper inside it.
And I thought it might be -
1. CRAFTS AND OTHER THINGS RELATED TO IT
2. DOLLS
3. A PAPER WRITTEN ON IT "YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL"
4. MAKE YOUR OWN STUFF
These were my options
IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS TELL ME IN COMMENTS

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Friends,, my birthday is all most like a half month to be there an another gift to peruse my hobby and the gift is that I ............Don't know but I knew what is there a big, real piano............. My brother has told me and I am so ready to start my lessons after my birthday using Simply Piano
Such a lovely gift,
Thanks from Aastha
Picture that my brother has send
Picture from Internet

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I have created this column because my birthday is on the month of June and to share what I did in these upcoming days.

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Learn Kathak | Lesson 1| Beginners | Tatkaar | Basic Footwork

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How To Make an Easy Origami Butterfly (in 3 MINUTES!)

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A beautiful origami and also a beautiful butterfly-
Here is, you guys also try

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I really want to learn origami. I think that it is a interesting and a unique hobby to do at lockdown and I'm trying to create at least 10 origami's

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Hello, so we all know that examinations are coming, holidays are finishing and June is coming. And there are some hoard of movies and songs for you to enjoy!
Hello June, Bye May

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June is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 30 days. June contains the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the day with the most daylight hours, and the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, the day with the fewest daylight hours (excluding polar regions in both cases). June in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. In the Northern Hemisphere, the beginning of the traditional astronomical summer is 21 June (meteorological summer begins on 1 June). In the Southern Hemisphere, meteorological winter begins on 1 June.

At the start of June, the sun rises in the constellation of Taurus; at the end of June, the sun rises in the constellation of Gemini. However, due to the precession of the equinoxes, June begins with the sun in the astrological sign of Gemini, and ends with the sun in the astrological sign of Cancer.[citation needed ]

Flaming June (1895) by Lord Leighton

The Latin name for June is . Ovid offers multiple etymologies for the name in the , a poem about the Roman calendar. The first is that the month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, the goddess of marriage and the wife of the supreme deity Jupiter; the second is that the name comes from the Latin word iuniores, meaning "younger ones", as opposed to maiores ("elders") for which the preceding month May may be named. Another source claims June is named after Lucius Junius Brutus, founder of the Roman Republic and ancestor of the Roman gens Junia.

In ancient Rome, the period from mid-May through mid-June was considered inauspicious for marriage. Ovid says that he consulted the Flaminica Dialis, the high priestess of Jupiter, about setting a date for his daughter's wedding, and was advised to wait till after June 15. Plutarch, however, implies that the entire month of June was more favorable for weddings than May.

Certain meteor showers take place in June. The Arietids takes place May 22 to July 2 each year, and peaks on June 7. The Beta Taurids June 5 to July 18. The June Bootids take place roughly between 26 June and 2 July each year.

Under the calendar of ancient Rome, the festival of Ludi Fabarici took place on May 29 - June 1, Kalendae Fabariae took place on June 1, the Festival to Bellona took place on June 3, Ludi Piscatorii took place on June 7, and Vestalia took place from June 7 - June 15. A Rosalia was held on June 20. The Secular Games were held roughly every 100 years in either May or June. These dates do not correspond to the modern Gregorian calendar.

June, from the Très riches heures du duc de Berry

Trooping the Colour is celebrated in June in London

(All Baha'i, Islamic, and Jewish observances begin at the sundown prior to the date listed, and end at sundown of the date in question unless otherwise noted.)

Third Friday

Saturday between June 20-25

Third Sunday

Father's Day (Afghanistan, Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Brunei, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Dominica, Ecuador, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Jordan, Japan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Laos, Macau, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, People's Republic of China, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe)

Friday following Third Sunday

Strands of pearls

Partially faceted alexandrite

Tumbled moonstones

June's birthstones are pearl, alexandrite and moonstone.

Rose Gaujard

Honeysuckle

The birth flowers are rose and honeysuckle. The zodiac signs are Gemini (until June 20) and Cancer (from June 21 onward). Both of these dates are for United States Eastern Daylight Time. For the world UT/GMT the dates are 19-20.

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June is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 30 days. June contains the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the day with the most daylight hours, and the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, the day with the fewest daylight hours (excluding polar regions in both cases).

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Hello, as you all know that tomorrow 30/05/2021 and it's also Sunday. So, why not spend time with our families and also enjoy because this time come very rarely so..... we editors also take a break from padlet. Yes, we know that it usually take's hardly 20-25 minutes but every second is important. So without any more conversions let decide that Sunday is holiday for me from this padlet. So.......... bye, see you on Monday

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On every Sunday I with my family see a movie. But maybe some of you who like to watch movie late night are thinking of some examples so here is -
Mr. bean holidays

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Kathak is one of the eight major forms of Indian classical dance. The origin of Kathak is traditionally attributed to the traveling bards in the of ancient northern India known as Kathakars or storytellers. The term Kathak is derived from the Vedic Sanskrit word which means "story", and Kathakar which means "the one who tells a story", or "to do with stories". Wandering Kathakars communicated stories from the great epics and ancient mythology through dance, songs and music. Kathak dancers tell various stories through their hand movements and extensive footwork, their body movements and flexibility but most importantly through their facial expressions. Kathak evolved during the Bhakti movement, particularly by incorporating the childhood and stories of the Hindu god Krishna, as well as independently in the courts of north Indian kingdoms. Kathak is unique in having both Hindu and Muslim gharanas and cultural elements of these gharanas. Kathak performances include Urdu Ghazals and commonly used instruments brought during the Mughal period.

Kathak is found in three distinct forms, called "gharanas", named after the cities where the Kathak dance tradition evolved - Jaipur, Banaras and Lucknow. While the Jaipur gharana focuses more on the foot movements, the Banaras and Lucknow gharanas focus more on facial expressions and graceful hand movements. Stylistically, the Kathak dance form emphasizes rhythmic foot movements, adorned with small bells ( Ghungroo) and the movement harmonized to the music. The legs and torso are generally straight, and the story is told through a developed vocabulary based on the gestures of arms and upper body movement, facial expressions, neck movements, eyes and eyebrow movement , stage movements, bends and turns. The main focus of the dance becomes the eyes and the foot movements. The eyes work as a medium of communication of the story the dancer is trying to communicate. With the eyebrows the dancer gives various facial expressions. The difference between the sub-traditions is the relative emphasis between acting versus footwork, with Lucknow style emphasizing acting and Jaipur style famed for its spectacular footwork.

Kathak as a performance art has survived and thrived as an oral tradition, innovated and taught and from one generation to another verbally and through practice. It transitioned, adapted and integrated the tastes of the Mughal courts in the 16th and 17th centuries, particularly by Akbar, but stagnated and went into decline during the British colonial era, then was reborn as India gained independence and sought to rediscover its ancient roots and a sense of national identity through the arts.

The term Kathak is rooted in the Vedic term Katha ( Sanskrit: कथा) which means "story, conversation, traditional tale". Kathak refers to one of the major classical dance form primarily found in northern India, with a historical influence similar to Bharatanatyam in south India, Odissi in east India and other major classical dances found in South Asia. It differs from the numerous folk dance forms found in north and other parts of the Indian subcontinent.

The Kathak dancers, in the ancient India, were traveling bards and were known as Kathakas, or Kathakar.

Kathak has inspired simplified regional variants, such as the Bhavai - a form of rural theatre focussing on the tales of Hindu goddesses ( Shakti), and one which emerged in the medieval era, is presently found in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. Another variant that emerged from ancient Kathak is Thumri.

Thumri was developed by the tawaif community who were called " nautch" dancers by the British. Their history as Kathak dancers have been erased in modern India Pallabi Chakravorty. (2008). "Bells Of Change: Kathak Dance, Women And Modernity In India", also see "The Tawaif And The Item Girl: A Struggle For Identity"

Performance arts and culture

Let Nātya (drama and dance) be the fifth vedic scripture.
Combined with an epic story,
tending to virtue, wealth, joy and spiritual freedom,
it must contain the significance of every scripture
and forward every art.

According to Mary Snodgrass, the Kathak tradition of India is traceable to 400 BCE. The earliest surviving text with Kathak roots is the Natya Shastra, attributed to sage Bharata, and its first complete compilation is dated to between 200 BCE and 200 CE, but estimates vary between 500 BCE and 500 CE.

The most studied version of the Natya Shastra text consists of about 6000 verses structured into 36 chapters. The text, states Natalia Lidova, describes the theory of Tāṇḍava dance ( Shiva), the theory of rasa, of bhāva, expression, gestures, acting techniques, basic steps, standing postures - all of which are part of Indian classical dances including Kathak. Dance and performance arts, states this ancient Hindu text, are a form of expression of spiritual ideas, virtues and the essence of scriptures.

The 2nd century BC panels found in Bharhut show the dancers in a vertical stance with their arms' positions already suggesting today's Kathak movements. Most of the dancers have one arm near the ear in a ''pataka hasta'' ( Mudra). In subsequent years, the hasta was lowered to the bust level.

The term Kathakas in the sense of "storytellers" appears in ancient Hindu texts, such as the Mahabharata:

वेदवेदाङ्गविद्वांसस्तथैवाध्यात्मचिन्तकाः |
चौक्षाश्च भगवद्भक्ताः सूताः पौराणिकाश्च ये ||२||
कथकाश्चापरे राजञ्श्रमणाश्च वनौकसः |
दिव्याख्यानानि ये चापि पठन्ति मधुरं द्विजाः ||३||

Followed by the scholars of the Vedas and Vedangas, and by those who ponder on their soul,
by persons skilled in music, by the devotees of Bhagavata, (...)
by Kathakas (reciters of the sacred lore), by dwellers of forests, (...)
by those who sweetly recite celestial histories.

Bards, actors, dancers, songsters and musical reciters of legends and stories are mentioned hundreds of times in the Hindu Epics.

Textual studies suggest that "Kathak" as a classical dance form likely started in Banares ( Varanasi) and from there migrated northwest to Lucknow, Jaipur and other parts of north and northwest India. The Lucknow tradition of Kathak dance attributes the style to a Bhakti movement devotee named Ishwari from the Handia village in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, who credited Hindu God Krishna appearing in his dream and asking him to develop "dance as a form of worship". Ishwari taught his descendants, who in turn preserved the learning and developments through an oral tradition over six generations ultimately yielding the Lucknow version of the Kathak dance - a family tree that is acknowledged in both Hindu and Muslim music-related Indian literature.

The evolution in Kathak dance theme during the Bhakti movement centered primarily around divine Krishna, his lover Radha and milkmaids ( gopis) - around legends and texts such as the Bhagavata Purana found in the Vaishnavism tradition of Hinduism. The love between Radha and Krishna became symbolism for the love between Atman (soul within) and the supreme source (Cosmic soul everywhere), a theme that dance ballet and mimetic plays of Kathak artists expressed. Although central asian influence of Kathak rapid whirls has been proposed, Sangitaratnakara, a 13th century Sanskrit text on Indian classical music and dance in Chapter 4 mentions a dance movement with rapid whirling around like a wheel keeping the arms in the Dola pose and bending the body inwards called 'Cakramandala' It is employed in worshipping gods and in vigorous movement.

The emergence of Raslila, mainly in the Braj region (Mathura in Western U.P.) was an important development. It combined in itself music, dance, and the narrative. Dance in Raslila, however, was mainly an extension of the basic mime and gestures of the Kathakars or story-tellers which blended easily with the existing traditional dance.

With the coming of the Mughals, this dance form received a new impetus. A transition from the temple courtyard to the palace durbar took place which necessitated changes in presentation. In both Hindu and Muslim courts, Kathak became highly stylized and came to be regarded as a sophisticated form of entertainment. Under the Muslims, there was a greater stress on nritya and bhavag - the dance's graceful, expressive and sensuous dimensions.

The Mughal era courts and nobles accepted Kathak as a form of aristocratic entertainment, which low income families were willing to provide. According to Drid Williams:

It should be remembered that the first Kathak dancers were, after all, Hindus who danced for Moghul overlords. Too much outward expression of religious belief was without doubt undesirable. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the wide use of 'abstract' dancing, intricate bell work ( tatkar), dazzling turns and the fleeting, transient, glimpses of Radha and Krishna in Kathak arose both to remind the dancers about their reasons for dancing and (gently, unobtrusively) to deceive their courtly Moghul audiences. Perhaps tatkar and tukras formed the bulk of these first dancers' performances. Gradually more and more images, then stories of Krishna and Radha crept in.

-  Drid Williams, Anthropology and the Dance

Over time, the Kathak repertoire added Persian and Central Asian themes, such as the whirling of Sufi dance, the costumes replaced Saris with items that bared midriff and included a transparent veil of the type common with medieval Harem dancers. When the colonial European officials began arriving in India, the Kathak court entertainment they witnessed was a synthesis of the ancient Indian tradition and Central Asian-Persian dance form, and the Kathak dance performers were called the "nautch girls" (or natch, a derivative of the more difficult to pronounce Sanskrit natya).

With the expansion of British colonial rule in 19th-century India, Kathak along with all other classical dance forms were discouraged and it went into decline. This was in part the result of the Victorian morality of sexual repressiveness along with Anglican missionaries who criticized Hinduism. Reverend James Long, for example, proposed that Kathak dancers should forget ancient Indian tales and Hindu legends, and substitute them with European legends and Christian tales. Missionaries recorded their frustration in Church Missionary Review when they saw Hindu audiences applaud and shout "Ram, Ram" during Kathak performances.

The seductive gestures and facial expressions during Kathak performances in Temples and family occasions were caricatured in The Wrongs of Indian Womanhood, published at the start of the 20th century, as evidence of "harlots, debased erotic culture, slavery to idols and priests" tradition, and Christian missionaries demanded that this must be stopped, launching the "anti-dance movement" or "anti-nautch movement" in 1892. Officials and newspapers dehumanized the Kathak dancers and the sources of patronage were pressured to stop supporting the Kathak performing "nautch girls" (also termed as devadasis and tawa'ifs in mid 20th century literature). Many accused the dance form as a front for prostitution, while revivalists questioned the constructed histories by the colonial writers.

Not only did missionaries and colonial officials ridicule the Kathak dancers, Indian men who had been educated in British institution and had adapted to Victorian prudery joined the criticism, states Margaret Walker, possibly because they had lost their cultural connection, no longer understood the underlying spiritual themes behind the dance, and assumed this was one of the "social ills, immoral and backward elements" in their heritage that they must stamp out. However, the Hindu families continued their private tutoring and kept the Kathak art alive as an oral tradition. Kathak teachers also shifted to training boys to preserve the tradition, as most of the 20th-century ridicule had been directed at Kathak "nautch girls".

Kathak was brought to the attention of audiences outside India in the early 20th century through Kalkaprasad Maharaj.

The movement to end the colonial era and for an independent India, states Walker, also witnessed a revival of Kathak and more broadly, a cultural ferment and effort to reclaim culture and rediscover history.

The Kathak revival movements co-developed in Muslim and Hindu gharanas, particularly by the Kathak-Misra community. Of these the Jaipur and Lucknow sub-traditions of Kathak have attracted more scholarship.

The oldest Kathak department pat a degree college (university) was formed in 1956 at Indira Kala Sangeet University, a public university located in Khairagarh where Dr. Puru Dadheech instated the first Kathak syllabus for degree programs. It was inspired by the diploma syllabus of Mohanrao Kallianpurkar at Bhatkhande College.

According to a BBC Arts article, Kathak is unique in being practiced by the Muslim community of the India, and thus has a "historical link to Islam." Farah Yasmeen Shaikh, a Muslim and a disciple of Pandit Chitresh Das in the Lucknow school, considers Kathak as a "confluence of Hindu and Muslim cultures", and has presented her performance in Pakistan. In contrast, states BBC, "Nahid Siddiqui, settled and nurtured in the UK, has a hard time practising and presenting her [Kathak] art in her birth-country of Pakistan".

While most scholars consider Kathak as an ancient art, some such as Margaret Walker suggest the modern Kathak is a 20th-century phenomenon, more a form of cultural revival, if one relies on the music-related Indian documents.

A modern Kathak, in all three major sub-traditions called Lucknow, Benares and Jaipur styles ( gharana), states Bruno Nettl, consist of three main sections - the invocation, one pure (abstract) dance recital and one expressive dance.

The invocation ( vandana) consists of the dancer coming to stage and offering respect to his or her guru and the musicians on the stage. If the team is from the Hindu tradition, the dancer(s) combine facial expressions and hand gestures ( mudra) to invoke Hindu gods and goddesses; while a Muslim performance replace the devotional expressions with a salami (salutation).

The pure dance is called a nritta, while the expressive dance is called a nritya. A Kathak performance can be solo, duo or team. In a technical performance, the speed and energy the dancers exchange with the audience increases in multiples, that is the tempo doubles or quadruples. During the performance, one or more of the Kathak artists may come to the microphone, interact with the audience, explain something, tell an anecdote in a particular language, or rhythmically recite a song.

The costumes of the dancer and the facial cosmetics between a Hindu or Muslim Kathak dance troupe varies. The stage typically is bare with no distracting background, states Williams, with musicians seated on rugs downstage right (audience's left), and if it is a Hindu performance there is an image of dancing Shiva ( Nataraja) or a Ganesha on the stage's left with flowers and perfumed incense burning.

Pure dance (Nritta)

The nritta performance starts off with a thàth sequence, which is a slower graceful movement of wrists, neck and eyebrows. Thereafter, the dancer gradually increases speed and energy, while completing a sequence of bol (mnemonic syllables in Indian tradition). Each bol has short sections, similar to technical exercises in western dance traditions, wherein the dancer engages the audience with tora, tukra, , paran and others stressing footwork, gestures and turns. Each section when completed has a punctuation mark, usually a sharp turn of the head. Each ankle is adorned with small bells ( ghungroo), which may have just one bell or hundreds. The dancer's rapid movements and footwork in a nritta is perfectly timed to the musical beats ( tala) and tempos, and the footwork sequences are called tatkars.

Most of the Nritta performance is abstract, fast and rhythmic aspect of Kathak. In a Kathak nritta, as with all classical Indian dance forms, the viewer is presented with pure movement, wherein the emphasis is the beauty in motion, form, speed, range and pattern. It aims to engage the senses (prakriti) of the audience.

Expressive dance (Nritya)

Nritya is slower and expressive aspect of Kathak that attempts to communicate feelings, storyline particularly with spiritual themes in Hindu dance traditions. In a nritya, the dance expands to include words, musical notes and gestures to articulate a legend or message, it is more than sensory enjoyment, it aims to engage the emotions and mind of the viewer.

The expressiveness of Kathak is also found in other classical dances of India. Its roots are found in the Natyashastra text which defines drama in verse 6.10 as that which aesthetically arouses joy in the spectator, through the medium of actor's art of communication, that helps connect and transport the individual into a super sensual inner state of being. The Natya connects through abhinaya (literally, "carrying to the spectators"), that is applying body-speech-mind and scene, wherein asserts Natyashastra, the actors communicate to the audience, through song and music. Drama in this ancient Sanskrit text, thus is an art to engage every aspect of life, in order to glorify and gift a state of joyful consciousness. According to Massey, another important ancient text that has influenced Kathak is the Abhinaya Darpanam of Nandikeshvara (~2nd century CE).

In Kathak, abhinaya is in the form of expressive gestures and pantomime set to music that usually outline a legend or the plot of a well known story. The gestures and facial expressions convey the ras (sentiment, emotional taste) and bhava (mood) of the underlying story. In the Hindu texts on dance, the guru and the artists successfully express the spiritual ideas by paying attention to four aspects of a performance: Angik (gestures and body language), Vachik (song, recitation, music and rhythm), Aharya (costume, make up, jewelry), and Satvik (artist's mental disposition and emotional connection with the story and audience, wherein the artist's inner and outer state resonates). A Kathak nritya performance, however grants flexibility to the artists and invites improvisation, and it may not be accompanied with a song or recital about the legend. The stories in Kathak performance generally tend to be about the Hindu god Krishna (or in some cases Shiva or Devi), and the stories come from sources such as the Bhagavata Purana, or the Indian Epics. This form of expressiveness is also found in thumri and Persian ghazals.

The costumes vary among Kathak performers, and find their sources in either Hindu or Muslim culture.

The Hindu costume for female dancers has two variations.One is based on a Sari, but is worn in a style different from the customary style that goes over the left shoulder. A Kathak artist generally wraps the sari around the waist and it hangs down from the left. A blouse called choli covers the upper body. The artist may wear a scarf (called orhni in some places). Hair, face, ear, neck, hand, wrist and ankle jewellery, typically of gold, may adorn the artist. A tika or in the middle of forehead is common. The second variation of a Hindu Kathak dancer uses a long, full (just above the ankle), light-weight skirt usually with embroidered border that helps highlight the dance motion. The skirt is contrasted with a different color choli, and a transparent scarf typically drapes over it and the dancer's head. Jewelry is typically present in the second variation.

The Muslim costume for female dancers also uses a skirt, but includes close fitting churidar pyjamas and sometimes a long coat covering hands and the upper body. The head has a cover scarf and the jewelry is light.

The Hindu costume for male Kathak performers is typically a silk dhoti draped around the waist, and covered with a silk scarf tied over the top. The upper body is usually left bare or with only the Hindu thread, but is sometimes covered with a loose sleeveless jacket. Kathak male artists also wear jewelry, but often of stones and much simpler than the female artists.

The ensemble of musical instruments vary with any Kathak performer, ranging from two to twelve classical Indian instruments or more in versions with synthetic innovations. The most common instruments that go with Kathak are tabla (a pair of hand drums) that syncs with the dancer's feet rhythms, sarangi or harmonium with manjira (hand cymbals) that meters the tal (cycle), and other instruments to add effect, depth and structure to the expressive stage of a Kathak performance.

The ancient music genre of India, Dhrupad, was re-introduced into Kathak for the first time by India's senior Kathak exponent Mahamahopadhyay Dr. Pandit Puru Dadheech. He is India's first Kathak dancer to bring back 'Dhrupad' on the formal Kathak stage and this composition in 28 matra. Shankar Pralayankar, his Dhrupad composition, has the unique status of regularly being sung in concerts by 'Dhrupad' maestros the Gundecha Brothers.

Kathak is a diffuse tradition, of which three gharanas (schools) are more well known and studied - Jaipur, Benares and Lucknow. The schools place different relative emphasis between aspects of a Kathak performance such as the acting versus footwork. The Lucknow style, for example, emphasizes acting while Jaipur style emphasizes the dance and footwork. Traditionally, the Jaipur gharana has had a strong spiritual flavor, covering a diverse range of ideas in Vaishnavism and Shaivism.

The Jaipur gharana traces its origins to Bhanuji, a famed Shiva Tandava dancer who upon visiting Vrindavan was inspired and taught Natvari Nritya. Bhanuji's grandons Laluji and Kanhuji were similarly inspired by Krishna. They returned to Jaipur, and together they began the Jaipur gharana of Kathak. The Jaipur style developed under the sponsorship of Rajput rulers, and they favored the Kathak dance with Hindu religious themes. In the modern era, this school has continued their emphasis on dance and footwork with Jai Lal, Janki Prasad, Kundan Lal, Mohan Lal and Nawal Kishore. This school is best known for its systematic innovations in rhythmic dancing, and the use of dance movement to express a story.

The Lucknow gharana of Kathak dance attributes its origins to a rural Krishna devotee named Ishwari from the village in southeast Uttar Pradesh, who aimed to develop Kathak dance as a form of loving devotion to Krishna. This school thrived after the Mughal Empire collapsed, when Kathak artists moved from Delhi to Lucknow under the sponsorship of Avadh nawabs who favored court dance culture. In the modern era, the Lucknow gharana style influences the dance school in New Delhi with Shambu Maharaj, Birju Maharaj and Lacchu Maharaj. Kathak choreography there has developed themes beyond Krishna-Radha, such as those based on the drama works of Kalidasa's Shiva-Parvati and Bhavabhuti's Malati-Madhav. This school has also attempted a Hindu-Muslim Kathak fusion style, highlighting the court dancers theme.

The Benares gharana is the third major style, traditionally believed to be the oldest. Its history is unclear. According to Kothari, the school started with Janakiprasad from a village near Bikaner who resettled in Varanasi, but one whose ancestors were famed dancers and musicians. Janakiprasad was a dancer and a Sanskrit scholar, and credited with inventing the bols of Kathak, which are mnemonic syllables within the language of this classical dance of India.

According to Nicole Lehmann, modern Kathak dancers show, to varying degrees, a fusion of the styles from all three gharanas.

The north Indian Kathak dance differs from the south Indian Bharatanatyam in several ways, even though both have roots in the Hindu text Natya Shastra. Kathak expressions - particularly in Hindu devotional styles - are more introverted and withdrawn, while Bharatanatyam is more extroverted and expansive. Kathak is normally performed in a standing form with legs and torso typically straight, while Bharatanatyam extensively utilizes bent knee form ( ara mandi, half sitting position that is somewhat similar to Demi Plié ballet move).

Kathak is also different from , though both are Indian classical dance traditions of "story play" wherein the stories have been traditionally derived from the Hindu epics and the Puranas. Kathakali emerged in the southwestern region of India (modern Kerala), and is distinctive in its elaborate codified colorful makeup, masks and costumes. Kathakali traditionally has been troupes of predominantly male actor-dancers, who dress up as hero, heroines, gods, goddesses, demons, demonesses, priests, animals and daily life characters. Both dance forms employ elaborate footwork, choreography and hand gestures, but Kathakali integrates south Indian martial arts movements such as leaps and jumps. Both dance forms trace their roots to classical Sanskrit texts, but Kathakali has relatively more recent origins, more closely follows the Hastha Lakshanadeepika text and began flourishing in the 16th century. While each has a different musical and dance language, both deploy a host of similar traditional Indian musical instruments.

According to Miriam Phillips, the Indian Kathak and the Spanish Flamenco dance share many visual, rhythmic and kinesthetic similarities.

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