Features of Kathak Dance
There are three chief main sections of the Kathak dance:
Invocation
This is the section where the artist offers his/her prayer or kind of salutation to his/her guru and to the god. The artists use mudras or hand gestures for the same.
Nritta
The pure dance portrayed by the artist is known as Nritta. Starts with a slow and graceful movement of the neck, wrists, and also the eyebrows. This is followed by the fast sequences according to the “bols”.
Nritya
The artist showcases a story with gestures, expressions, and slow body movements which are accompanied by music.
Beyond Regional Frontiers: The story of Kathak
The term Kathak is gotten from the Vedic Sanskrit word Katha which implies means” story”, and “Kathakar” which signifies” the person who recounts a story”, or “to do with stories”. One of the significant Indian Classical cotillion shapes, its starting point is traditionally stories”. Attributed to the voyaging poetasters of antiquated northern India known as Kathakars or narrators. Accordingly, Kathak is not simply a cotillion yet an exodus of a story.