‘Nrityanjali’ – an online film festival on Indian

The Films Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting is organizing the concluding part of ‘Nrityanjali’, an online film festival on Indian classical dance and its maestros from October 28 to 30.

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Key-Points

Nrityanjali is an online festival of documentary films on the life and work of some of the leading Indian classical dance exponents.

The festival will be streamed on Films Division website and its YouTube channel. All films will be streamed live, simultaneously, for three days.

Indian Classical Dance is an umbrella under which various performing arts whose theory and practice can be traced to the Sanskrit text, Natya-Shastra, the foundational treatise by Bharata Muni.

Prominent traditional dance forms like Bharat Natyam, Kathak, Kuchipudi, Odissi, Kathakali, Sattriya, Manipuri and Mohini Aattam, include music and recitation in the local language or Sanskrit and they represent a unity of core ideas in a diversity of styles, costumes and expression.