Christian Themes through Bharatanatyam

Abstract

The urge for expression and communication is innate in every human being. All of us want to express our spiritual experience, our ideas, feelings and emotions to others, to ourselves and to God. Dance may be considered a mental projection of inner thoughts and feelings into movement, rhythm being the mould through which the creative life flows in giving its meaningful form. To attain this as meaningful art-form the fusion of inner and outer form should take place. The unseen, inner form or dance is the organization of the mental attributes into content; the outer is the observed dance form, the movement which is the result of the organization and the execution of the motor elements. The aesthetic quality or the value of the art-form will depend on how perfectly the inner form (unseen dance) and the outer form (visual dance) are fused.