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Performer at a Kannur district school dance festival, 2009. Mohiniyattam is an Indian classical dance form originating from the state of Kerala. [1] [2] The dance gets its name from Mohini – the female enchantress avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu, who helps the devas prevail over the asuras using her feminine charm.
Kerala Natanam (Kerala Dance) is a new style of dance that is now recognised as a distinct art form evolved from Kathakali, a form of Indian dance-drama.The Indian dancer Guru Gopinath a well-trained Kathakali artist and his wife Thankamani Gopinath who was the first student of Mohiniyattam in Kerala Kalamandalam developed a unique structure for teaching and performing classical dance forms of ...
Kanak Rele (11 June 1937 – 22 February 2023) [1] was an Indian dancer, choreographer, and academic best known as an exponent of Mohiniyattam.She was the founder-director of the Nalanda Dance Research Centre and the founder-principal of the Nalanda Nritya Kala Mahavidyalaya in Mumbai.
Kalamandalam Kallyanikutty Amma (1915 – 1999) was an epoch-making Mohiniyattam danseuse from Kerala in southern India. [1] A native of Thirunavaya in Malappuram district of the state, she was instrumental in resurrecting Mohiniyattam from a dismal, near-extinct state into a mainstream Indian classical dance, rendering it formal structure and ornamentation.
The word "Mohiniyattam" literally means "dance of the enchantress". [ 9 ] Bharati Shivaji was born in 1948 in the temple town of Kumbakonam , in Tanjavur district of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu , [ 10 ] and had her early training in Bharatnatyam under Lalita Shastri [ 11 ] and Odissi under Kelucharan Mohapatra . [ 12 ]
In 1994, she started Lasya Academy of Mohiniyattam at Thrissur. In 2000, she started doing choreographies in Mohiniyattam. Her Ritu-Raga is a fusion of Bengali and Kerala forms, Rabindra Sangeeth with Kerala's Sopanam music. [3] In February 2009, she conducted a workshop for Bangladeshi dancers at Dhaka. [4]
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An example of this dance is the Mohiniyattam of Kerala. [8] There are described to be four forms of the Lasya: Srinkhala, Lata, Pindi, and Bhedyaka. [9] Professor Inayat Khan in his book Munqar Musicar (1912) wrote: "Women and men both perform this dance and there are a number of recognized masters of it in India.