In the history of Indian performing arts and aesthetics, dance is a form that can be traced back to the first century BC. In fact its roots lie deeply embedded within Bharata’s natyashastra: a comprehensive; encyclopedic manual on ‘drama’ which reveals a harmonious fusion of elements from dance, music, pantomime, epic and ballad recitation and graphic and plastic arts. The diversity and long history of dance in the subcontinent: the fact that there is no ...
