 What's your favorite Indian curse word? Is it still Marachod? Marachod. What about Bokechora? I love that too. No, it's still, it's always, I think... What about Chutya? That's nice. Yeah, that's a nice one. It is, but I think it's always going to be because that was the first one we ever learned and it's so common and it's so fulfilling and it's so nois, Marachod. That's why I brought it on the cup. Yeah, that's my favorite. But you're a Benchot. Josh! Hey, welcome back to our stupid prank. I hope your kids aren't watching. Yeah, really. There's some lessons happening right now about what we say and don't say. Uh, yeah. Sorry. This is called something. Yeah. Okay. This is called all the classical dances of India. And I already know how many stupid babies are saying why isn't Andrani watching this one. She is here. That's okay, it's her prerogative. But she doesn't have to do that. It's that the video title is actually eight classical dances of these. So I'm sure it's all eight classical dances. And I'm not sure if Andrani is a dancer. No, she is. Odisha. I'm not sure that that is in there. I bet it is. I bet it's coming here. We will see. But we've seen a lot. 14 minutes of dancing. So it's going to, I think it's actually going to help describe each dance, I think. So it's like going to go into detail of like what the differences are. My hope is that it's all eight classical dances demonstrated by Big B. That's just him. He is a great Karthik dancer. The possibly the best. Karthik. I just read the first one I saw. Here we go. This is Manohar Veera and welcome to the Chandler R&M series by Xanthi. In this session, we are going to see classical dances of India. India is home to many great culturally blended dance forms. Let's look at the most important eight forms of it. Indian classical dance, otherwise known as Sastriya Mithya, is a term for various performances or srotra in religious Hindu musical Theru Shams, whose theory and practice can be traced to the Sanskrit text Natya Shastra. The number of recognized classical dances ranging from many more eight and the number largely depends on the source and style. The Sanjith Natak Academy recognizes eight forms of dances as far as they are. Deyam, Barnaakel, Kathak, Kuchipudi, Odisi, Kathakali, Shatriya, Manipudi and Mohiniya. These dances are traditionally regional, all of them include music and recreation in local language, the Sanskrit. And they represent a unity of core ideas in a diversity of styles, costumes and expression. First, we will see about Bharatanatyam. Bharatanatyam is one of the most popular classical Indian dances. Bharatanatyam is more popular in South Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Bharatanatyam dance is almost 2000 years old. It is believed that Bharatanatyam was revealed by Lord Brahman to Bharata, a famous sage who then codified this sacred dance in a Sanskrit text called Natya Shastra. The Natya Shastra is one of the fundamental features of Indian drama and aesthetics. Instruments used in Bharatanatyam are Revangam, Veynau, Float and Taal. The famous dances are Rukmini Devi, Bhatma Subramanya, Alarmelvalli. Forgive us if these are other names we should know too. Yamini Krishnamurti, Anitaratnam, Mallikasarabhai. I like this dead silence. What do you mean I am teaching the rambili? Number two, Kathak. Kathak is one of the most important classical dances of India. Kathak is said to be derived from the word katha, meaning the art of storytelling. The Kathak dance originated in North India and was very similar to Bharatanatyam dance song. In ancient India, there were Kathakers or birds who used to recite religious and mythological tales to the accompaniment music, mind and dance. Instrument used in Kathak are Paka watch, drums there are, tabela, batu, or dost plays that, harmonium, I am interested in the chord. Number three, Kathakali. Kathakali is the classical dance from Kerala. The word Kathakali literally means story. Kathakali is known for its heavy elaborate makeup and costumes. In fact, the colorful and fascinating costumes of Kathakali have become the most recognized icon of Kerala. Kathakali is considered as one of the most magnificent theaters of imagination and creativity. Kathakali dance presents themes derived from the Ramayana and Mahabharata and the some other Hindu ethics, mythologies and legends. Instruments that are used in Kathakali are the famous dances of Kalamandalam Gopi, Patmanavan Naya, Ramanikkuti Naya. Number four, Kuchipudi. Kuchipudi is one of the classical dance forms of South India. Kuchipudi derives its name from the Kuchipudi village of Andhra Pradesh. In the 17th century, the Kuchipudi village was presented to the Brahmins who were experts in staging dance and drama. Kuchipudi exhibits scenes from the Hindu ethics, legends and mythological tales through a combination of music, dance and acting. Like other classical dancers, Kuchipudi also comprises few bands, mind and history omens, but it is the use of speech that distinguishes Kuchipudi's presentation as dance drama. Instruments used in Kuchipudi are a different kind of dance. It seems like the Reddy family is predominant. Must be that certain part of India that it's from. Yeah, wow. Next in the line is Manipuri. Manipuri is one of the eight major classical dancers of India. Manipuri dance is indigenous to Manipur, the northeastern state of India. The Manipuri dance style is inextricably woven into the life pattern of Manipuri people. The most striking part of Manipuri dance is its colorful decorations, lightness of dancing food, delicacy of Abhinaya, litting music and poetic charm. The Manipuri dance form is most realistic and draws heavily from the rich culture of the state of Manipur. The major instruments used in Manipuri is pung and cymbals. Quite a couple of cymbals there. That's a good question. The famous dancers to be noted are Guru Bikin Singh, Darshan Javed, Ranjana, Charmatu. Next in the line is Mohini Atam. That's it. That's it. Mohini Atam is a classical dance form of Kerala. Mohini Atam is Jared from the words Mohini means beautiful woman. Mohini Atam meaning dance. That's Mohini Atam is a dance form, is a beautiful feminine style with surging flow, gaudy moments. Mohini Atam dance in Kerala developed in the tradition of Devagafi system, which later grew and developed a classical status. Instrument used in Mohini Atam are Shenda and Neelatalam. The famous dancers to be noted are Sunanta Nair, Jayaprabha Menu, Pallavi Krishnan, Gopika Verma, Vijay Lakshman, Smita Rajan. Number seven, Odisi. Odisi is one of the most famous classical Indian dancers from Odisha state. The history of Odisi dance is almost 2000 years old. Odisi is a highly inspired, passionate, ecstatic and sensuous form of dance. Like most of the southern Indian classical dancers of India, Odisi too had its origin in the Devagafi tradition. The instruments used in Odisi are some type of drum, a porch, some type of cymbal, tabela, flute and cymbals. One more good message. The famous dancers in Odisi are Kelly Charang Mohapatra, Deva Prashant Das, Pankat Sarandas and Gangadhar Pradam, Aditi Bandyodhan. And the last one is Satriya. Satras are the Vaishnava monasteries in Assam. The sign for Ashankar Deva of the 15th century. Not sure we've seen something from this. I might be wrong. I think we did the one where we had to guess. Oh yeah, we were like we never seen that. Creating forms of dance drum was music, painting and collective prayer. The dance forms which have come to stay are called Satriya dances. Sharing all the characteristics of a classical dance form. The instruments used in Satriya are violin, cymbals and the synthesizer. Cool. The famous dancers in Satriya are So we have come to the end of this session on classical dances of India. We hope you liked it. Please do share the video with your friends and subscribe to Xangvin's channel to get the latest updates on Jindala Bandya series. Thank you friends. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, there's a lot of info there and it's it's it's also very interesting that not only obviously are they very unique dances to different regions but also they have specific instruments. Yeah. It's not just the dance that's specific. They have specific instruments that are allowed and used. And is it like is it just that that's what's traditionally used or is it just um like it's it's definite you you can't you don't vary you don't you don't swear. My suspicion is that you don't sway from that and it's interesting. Kind of like rock it's it's a certain right. It's a certain thing and you stick to that and it's like everything else we discovered in India from the film industries to the artistry and all kinds of disciplines to when we went and visited whereas particularly we we noticed when we ate the food we said that each region tastes like its own region but they all taste Indian and that's what that's like. Every one of these dance forms is very unique to their region but they all are Indian. They all look and have the same sense of DNA of being from the same place. Be really cool to like do a video like learn. Yeah. I've already thought about it. We'll see. Maybe one day. I'll have a talk. Maybe one day we'll do something uh if we know a dancer but uh yeah let us know what other dance videos we can either they're informational or just them yeah because I think there's a few in there that looked really interesting in terms of like some of the clips that they were showing of some of the stuff and some of the stuff we've actually seen before because we've reacted to a lot of cluster dances some of our favorites yeah uh to actually react to some yep let us know what other ones we can react to down below.