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  2. Bharatanatyam - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... [10] [11] The Thanjavur Quartet developed the basic structure of modern Bharatanatyam by ... acting techniques, basic steps, ...

  3. Muthuswamy Pillai - Wikipedia

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    Adavus are the basic steps of the bharatanatyam dance. Muthuswamy Pillai is known for elaborating countlessly many new variations of adavus. [ 12 ] In some adavus families like Kutta (also named Ta-tai-ta-ha), he introduced variations of adavus that use only one hand.

  4. Thanjavur Quartet - Wikipedia

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    The four brothers composed numerous varnams and kritis.Some of these are Amba Souramba and Amba Neelamba, Ambaneelambari (Neelambari), Satileni (Poorvikalyani), apart from the navaratna mala.These brothers composed number of Varnas and Kritis.They were the first to formalise the performance pattern of bharatanatyam, and codify lessons called adavus (basic steps and the different categories of ...

  5. Dance forms of Tamil Nadu - Wikipedia

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    Bharatanatyam is a major genre of classical dance that originated in the state. There are a lot of folk dance forms that are practised in the region, some of which trace their origins to the Sangam period (3rd century BCE). Koothu was a popular theater art from which combined dance with drama.

  6. Alarippu - Wikipedia

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    Alarippu is traditionally the first dance piece that Bharatanatyam dancers learn. It is usually done first before other dances. The Alarippu can be in five different Jathis. The alarippu is a Tamil word, அலாரிப்பு. [1] Allaripu means the blossoming of a dancer. This dance item is composed of basic steps. It contains no abhinaya.

  7. List of mudras (dance) - Wikipedia

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    In Bharatanatyam, the classical dance of India performed by Lord Nataraja, approximately 51 root mudras (hand or finger gestures) are used to clearly communicate specific ideas, events, actions, or creatures in which 28 require only one hand, and are classified as `Asamyuta Hasta', along with 23 other primary mudras which require both hands and are classified as 'Samyuta Hasta'; these 51 are ...

  8. K. P. Kittappa Pillai - Wikipedia

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    The brothers codified the basic bharathanatyam adavus, developed the margam (from alarippu to tillana) as we know it today, composed an impressive number of alarippus, jatiswarams, kavituvams, sabdams, varnams, padams, javalis, kirtanais, and tillanas and in brief, transformed both the temple and court presentation of sadir, as this form was ...

  9. Karana (dance) - Wikipedia

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    Some other Bharatanatyam gurus, such as Adyar Lakshman (Kalakshetra school), as well as the Kuchipudi gurus Vempati Chinna Satyam and C.R.Acharya have also attempted to reconstruct all the 108 karanas, which were often significantly different from Padma Subrahmanyam's interpretations so much so that even on the chari (leg movement) level there ...