Nrityagram Dance Village at Karnataka is a dream of the dancers community in South India. The classical dancers from Karnataka have always wanted to build a space for themselves amidst the nature where they could practice their dance without any interruption. Nrityagram Dance Village in Karnataka is one such place where you don't have anything except dance. You eat, drink, sleep, dream, talk, breathe and imagine only dance. Its a one of its kind dance village in India.
Protima Gauri, one of the eminent dancers wanted Nrityagram Dance Village to be a place where dancers could attain perfection in their profession and leave all the negative feelings such as jealousy, small mindedness, greed and malice and support their colleagues in the same profession to attain merit in their performances.
Nrityagram Dance Village at Karnataka follows the ancient system of Gurukul tradition. The students who come here to learn dance, have to serve their teachers by growing fruits and vegetables on the land, cooking for them, cleaning their rooms and earning through dance recitals.
The main aim of Nrityagram Dance Village of Karnataka is to impart dance education to the young generation. Moreover, programmes that could help create more audience for classical arts needs to be devised and research for application of classical dance in education, rehabilitation, therapy, etc. needs to be taken up.
At Nrityagram Dance Village in Karnataka, students not only get dance training but they get to learn Indian literature, mythology, poetry, aesthetics, history and philosophy of dance, Sanskrit, music, spiritual thought and theory of dance. Workshops are organized regularly on yoga, meditation, sculpture, etc.
You can learn the following dance forms at Nrityagram Dance Village in Karnataka :
- Odissi
- Mohiniattam
- Kathak
- Bharatnatyam
- Manipuri
- Kathakali
- Kuchipudi
