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Dancing in rapture
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HIMANSHU BHATT
New Straits Times
02-05-2006
Dancing in rapture
Byline: HIMANSHU BHATT
Edition: New Sunday Times
TWO of India's promising young dancers of the kathak, Hari and Chethana, show how their spectacular techniques are rooted in a very simple, age-old medium of folk entertainment, writes HIMANSHU BHATT.
IT may see a very complex craft, but the origin of the kathak can be traced to a most basic form of public presentation - plain storytelling.
Five hundred years ago, a certain class of narrators travelled around north India, from village to village and from town to town, reciting to ...
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