Gaudiya Nritya Explained

Gaudiya Nritya
Instruments:Anaddha, Ghana, Susir and Tata
Origin:Gauda kingdom(ancient bengal), India West Bengal

Gaudiya Nritya (bn|Gaur̤īẏa Nṛtya|translit=|label= or Gour̤īyo Nrityo) is a dance tradition.[1] [2] [3] This dance expressed religious stories through songs written and composed to the ragas & talas of Gaudiya music by ancient poets, especially Vaishnavism. Gaudiya Nritya performances have also expressed ideas of other traditions related to the Hindu deities Shiva and Ganesha, as well as Shakta concepts. It was reconstructed by Mahua Mukherjee in the 1980s and a research scholarship has since been awarded for it by the Indian Ministry of Culture.

Etymology

On 21 September 1994, The name Gaudiya Nritya was adopted on the advice of Indologist Bratindra Nath Mukhopadhyay. Reasons for this designation include: in ancient times – the reign of Shashanka and the Pala and Sena eras – the whole of Bengal was referred to as Gauda and the presence of the Gaudiya style in bengali music and literature. Also, in the fifteenth century, Sangeet Shastrakar Maheswara Mohapatra of Odisha mentions seven types of dance styles in Abhinaya Chandrika including Gaudiya dance.

History

The theoretical foundations of Gaurika dance can be found in the ancient Sanskrit text Natyashastra; Its existence in ancient times is attested by dance poses in sculptures of the Gaudiya style temple and archaeological sites associated with Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism and it is mentioned by ancient poets of Bengal. After colonial rule, it underwent revival, reconstruction and expansion in the 1980s.

It has been reconstructed by Mahua Mukherjee, a Bengali researcher and dancer. A research scholarship was awarded by the Ministry of Culture for this dance-based research.[4] Rabindra Bharati University and University of Oklahoma have recognized it as a classical dance form.[5] [6] [7] [8]

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Notes and References

  1. Roma Chatterji (2005). Folklore and the Construction of National Tradition . Indian Folklife 19 (Folklore Abroad: On the Diffusion and Revision of Sociocultural Categories): 9. Accessed January 2014. "a classical dance tradition that has vanished from the urban areas".
  2. Web site: West Bengal Tourism: Dance . Department of Tourism, Government of West Bengal . 2011 . January 11, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131021225635/http://www.westbengaltourism.gov.in/web/guest/dance . October 21, 2013 . mdy-all .
  3. News: Bharatram . Kumudha . April 9, 2011 . Dance of the ancients . November 15, 2013 . The Hindu.
  4. Web site: Scholarship to Young Artistes, 2005. Ministry of Culture. Government of India. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131021161953/http://indiaculture.nic.in/indiaculture/scholarship-to-young-artist.html. October 21, 2013. mdy-all.
  5. Web site: Feet forgotten and found. 2022-01-25. www.telegraphindia.com.
  6. Utpal Kumar Banerjee (2006). Indian performing arts: a mosaic. New Delhi: Harman Publishing House. . p. 79: "re-creating Gaudiya Nritya as one of the acceptable classical styles will need a formal framework".
  7. Leela Venkataraman (2006). Negotiating the Extremes: dance. India International Centre Quarterly, 33 (1): 93-102. "one may have reservations about the classical dance repertoire visualised by [Mukherjee]".
  8. Roma Chatterji (2005). p. 9: "Mukherjee tries to reconstitute a Bengali aesthetic within the perspective of pan-Indian civilisation".

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