Kathak and Drama, co-relation and interconnection

Abstract

Dance is as natural as humans‟ breath. It‟s a gift to mankind. Particularly India and oriental belief is deeply connected with performing arts. Kathak is one of the classical dance forms which emerged and flourished in India. Through gestures, expressions, costumes and makeup- even music is appealing to enthusiastic spectators. The paper will study the correlation Drama and Dance – as performing arts.
The attempt to study the non-verbal elements of dance will lead to foregrounding the evolution of Drama. Drama and its origin are as ancient and rooted as oral traditions to human kind. Dance and drama have always been interrelated. Natyashashtra is one of the earliest treatise on drama that discusses in detai all the aspects of drama and dance and to theorise on the performing art a whole and drama in particular. It would be interesting to see the close relation of dance and drama through angik and sattvik bhavas.