Bharatnatyam

Bharatnatyam is a dance of Tamil Nadu in Southern India. It is a pre-eminent Indian classical dance form presumably the oldest classical dance heritage of India is regarded as mother of many other Indian classical dance forms. All these dance forms use basically the same mudras or signs of hand as a common language of expression and were originally performed in the temples of entertain various Gods and Goddesses. Bharatnatyam dance is almost 2,000 years old. It is believed that Bharatnatyam was revealed by Lord Brahma to Bharata, a famous sage who then codified this sacred dance in a Sanskrit text called the Natya Shasta.