Gaudiya Nritya

Gaudiya Nritya
Instrument(s)Anaddha, Ghana, Susir and Tata[1]
OriginGauda kingdom(ancient bengal), India West Bengal
Bengali classical dance.
Performance of Gaudiya Nritya by Mahua Mukherjee

Gaudiya Nritya (Bengali: Gaur̤īẏa Nṛtya or Gour̤īyo Nrityo) is a dance tradition.[2][3][4] This dance expressed religious stories[5] through songs written[6] and composed to the ragas & talas[7] of Gaudiya music by ancient poets, especially Vaishnavism.[8] Gaudiya Nritya performances have also expressed ideas of other traditions related to the Hindu deities Shiva[8] and Ganesha, as well as Shakta concepts.[9] 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.

  1. ^ Mukherjee 2000, p. 95.
  2. ^ Roma Chatterji (2005). Folklore and the Construction of National Tradition Archived February 12, 2018, at the Wayback Machine. 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".
  3. ^ "West Bengal Tourism: Dance". Department of Tourism, Government of West Bengal. 2011. Archived from the original on October 21, 2013. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
  4. ^ Bharatram, Kumudha (April 9, 2011). "Dance of the ancients". The Hindu. Retrieved November 15, 2013.
  5. ^ Mukherjee 2000, p. 179.
  6. ^ Mukherjee 2000, pp. 199–201.
  7. ^ Mukherjee 2000, p. 201.
  8. ^ a b Mukherjee 2000, p. 185.
  9. ^ Mukherjee 2000, p. 181.