Bharatnatyam (Tamil Nadu)

✅Bharatnatyam dance is known to be ekaharya, where one dancer takes on many roles in a single performance.

✅The dance involves transitional movements of leg, hip and arm. Expressive eye movements and hand gestures are used to convey emotions.

✅The accompanying orchestra consists of a vocalist, a mridangam player, violinist or veena player, a flautist and a cymbal player. 

✅The person who conducts the dance recitation isthe Nattuvanar.

✅In its usual form the dance is generally broken into seven main parts – Alarippu, Jatiswaran, Shabda, Varna, Pada, Thillana and Sloka.