The ancient Bharatanatyam dance
was originally a temple dance from South india, has been described one of
the richest and It combines music, dance, drama, poetry to create complete
and stylized artistic endeavor. Bhratanatyam`s roots are thought to date
back to more than 2000 years ago.
The word Bharata is derived from three main components:
Bhava, showing emotions; Raga, melody; Tala rhythm. It has been called
as Sathir, Koothu in ancient Tamil literature. Its called Bharatanatyam
in recent years and spread around the globe. Bhratanatyam plays a major
role in interpreting mythlogy and story telling about historical events
in present environment.
'Abhinaya' literally means "to carry towards" (the prefix
'abhi' means 'towards' and the root 'ni' means 'to carry'). Thus carrying
of an idea towards the spectator or inshort to educate is "Abhinaya".
'Abhinaya Darpanam' mentions : The actors educate the spectator by stimulating
in him or her the latent possibility of aesthetic experience.
Thus Abhinaya is necessarily a representation which is able to suggest
or present the psychological status of charactersin a dramatic representation
or in dance.
It became more and more adopted among the people and has become a way
of expression in contemporary performances.
Bharata Natyam is poetry in motion, derived from Natya Shastra and its
written by Bhrata Muni,
According to Natya Shastra Classical dance has three distinct divisions
and aspects:
Nritta corresponds to pure dance steps performed rhythmically.
Nritya relates to Sentiment: rasa and Psychological States: bhaava
Natya corresponds to drama including both Nritta and Nritya
This dance is based on South indian classical music Carnatic characterized
by melodious raga and ryhthmic tala.
Creating Rasa means to give aesthetic delight or to give an experience
of ultimate bliss and happiness when viewing a dance performance. Thus
it could be best translated as the aesthetic feeling that is created in
the spectator when he or she witnesses an effective presentation of the
art.
The ancient Bharatanatyam dance
was originally a temple dance from South india, has been described one of
the richest and It combines music, dance, drama, poetry to create complete
and stylized artistic endeavor. Bhratanatyam`s roots are thought to date
back to more than 2000 years ago. 
evincetech.com