{"id":15269,"date":"2016-11-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/11\/30\/roots-revival-india-s-classical-dance-is-back-en-vogue-in-delhi\/"},"modified":"2016-11-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T12:00:00","slug":"roots-revival-india-s-classical-dance-is-back-en-vogue-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/11\/30\/roots-revival-india-s-classical-dance-is-back-en-vogue-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Roots Revival: India&#8217;s Classical Dance Is Back En Vogue in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepeninsulaqatar.com\/article\/26\/11\/2016\/Roots-revival-India-s-classical-dance-is-back-en-vogue\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 26, 2016 (The Peninsula Qatar): Students elegantly curve their hands before breaking into synchronized footwork at a class in New Delhi, where growing numbers are signing up for Indian traditional dance classes rooted in Hindu mythology. Class participants range from from pre-teens to surgeons and marketing managers &#8212; but they have all chosen to learn traditional Indian dance, which emerged from the country&#8217;s temples centuries ago, over Western options such as ballet, jazz and hip hop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tradition is becoming popular now,&#8221; said Nitya Pant, a Mumbai-based marketing executive who practices Odissi &#8212; an ancient temple-based dance that honors Hindu Lord Jagannath, Lord of the Universe. &#8220;No other form can give you the satisfaction that classical dance gives you,&#8221; added the 29-year-old. &#8220;You feel like you&#8217;re one with God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>India is home to eight major classical dance styles including Odissi and Bharatnatyam &#8212; a genre originating in the country&#8217;s southern temples more than 2,000 years ago &#8212; that tell stories of gods through facial expressions, hand gestures and rapid footwork. Once performed in temples and royal courts, India&#8217;s classical dance has found international resonance with troupes performing around the world. Thanks to a mushrooming Indian diaspora, traditional dance schools have popped up globally, piquing the interest of other nationalities too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 26, 2016 (The Peninsula Qatar): Students elegantly curve their hands before breaking into synchronized footwork,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}