Art of hindu dance
- Gurugram Shubhi Publications 2021
- 238
Dancing is inherent in all humans. It is commonly a piece of amusement, a part of education, a social function or a health-giving sport. As a part of education no branch of physical training is believed to do so much for the development of poise and deportment as that particular type of dancing, which is generally known as ballet. Dance does not merely form a part of health-giving exercise, or training in correct poise and deportment, it is something more. It is amusement both for the person and for the community; a scope and an occasion for the lovers to meet and enjoy each other’s company without a social taboo; for friends to actively participate in a lively, musical occupation; for strangers to become intimate. Of all, dancing in society provides consummation of free-mixing, of interchangeable emotion,—both physical and mental, between the two sexes, if, however, on the contrary it does not lead to complexities of ideas and feelings of love and jealousy, of broad-mindedness and narrowness of heart.