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Vasundhara was honoured with "Shantala Natya Sri Award" -The highest State Award for Dance by the Karnataka State Government [11] and the Rajyotsava Award [Karnataka State]. She is the youngest recipient of the "Karnataka Kala Tilak", [ 1 ] the prestigious award from the Karnataka Sangeetha Nrithya Academy, to date and also the only recipient ...
Various styles of traditional drums are used in folk music, dance and theater of Karnataka Dollu Kunitha is also danced by women. This is a group dance named after the dollu used in its performance, and performed by the men of the Kuruba Gowda community. The group consists of 16 dancers, each wearing a drum and playing different rhythms while ...
Kolata is the traditional folk dance of the state of Karnataka, located in Southern India on the western coast. [1] Unlike its North Indian counterpart Dandiya Ras, it comes in two forms. First, it is performed with coloured sticks and usually involves both men and women dancing together.
Veeragase/Guggla is a dance form prevalent in the state of Karnataka, India. It is a vigorous dance based on Hindu mythology and involves very intense energy-sapping dance movements performed by Jangama. Veeragase is one of the dances demonstrated in the Dasara procession held in Mysore. This dance is performed during festivals and mainly in ...
Bantwal Jayaram Acharya (12 October 1957 – 21 October 2024) was an Indian classical dancer, stage performer and Yakshagana artist. He was known for having a transformational impact on the art of traditional dance genre Yakshagana by incorporating an element of humour which he continued for over 50 years.
According to Saskia Kersenboom, both the Telugu Kuchipudi and Tamil Bhagavata Mela are strongly related to the classical Hindu dance tradition of Yakṣagāna found in Karnataka, all three involve Carnatic music, but these dance-drama traditions have differences such as in costumes, structure, interpretation and creative innovations.
One of the most striking features of Indian classical dance and dances of Thailand, [1] Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and the Malay world is the use of hand gestures. Speaking in dance via gestures in order to convey outer events or things visually is what mudras do. To convey inner feelings, two classifications of mudras (hand or finger gesture) are ...
Gaarudi Gombe is a folk dance prevalent in the state of Karnataka, India. Dancers adorn themselves with giant doll-suits made of bamboo sticks. The term Gaarudi-Gombe means magical-doll in the native language, Kannada. This dance is performed during major festivals and also in the procession held during the festivities of Mysore Dasara.