What is Bharathanayam? or what is pavm, ragam and thalm?

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(It's only for tamil people)

Answer 1

It is a classical dance coming from India.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatanatyam
http://in.geocities.com/medhahari/bharatnatyam/bharatnatyam.html

Ragam
type of music used in classical Indian dance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raga

Thalam
The thalam is used by musicians as a timing instrument. The mild clanging sound made by the two circular brass plates held together by a string, is used to maintain timing and rhythm.
Thalam is mainly used in devotional music and in Nadaswaram recitals. It keeps a beat that dancers may keep a rhythm to.

Answer 2

Bharathanatyam is a classical dance of Tamil Nadu.
As Yoga, Ayurvedic medicines, astrology is, this dance along with many classical dances from different states are part of Hinduism.
Another sothern state Andhra Pradesh has Kuchupudi as classical dance, Similarly there are about 10 different classical dance from different states.
They are mostly based on mythologies from Hinduism.
Ragam is classical way of singing and thalam is the beat to dance or song.
I am not familiar with pavam. If you go look at wikipedia, you can probably find more about these.

Answer 3

Ragam is voice, Thalam is Music and Bhavam is Facial Expression = Dance of India - Bharatha Natyam

Answer 4

Bharatanatyam, as Balasaraswati puts it, is an artistic yoga (natya yoga), for revealing the spiritual through the corporeal. It is the most widely practised of Indian classical dances in South India. It is the most ancient of all the classical dance forms in India, which are based on Natya Shastra, the Bible of the classical Indian dance. The term "Bharatanatyam" was used by Purandara Dasa (1484-1564).
Gods and Godesses pleaded with Lord Brahma for another Veda to be created that would be simple for the common man to understand, which is particularly important in Kali Yuga. Granting their wish, Lord Brahma created the Panchamaveda, the Fifth Veda, or NatyaVeda, a quintessence of the main four Vedas. Brahma took pathya (words) form the Rigveda, abhinaya (communicative elements of the body movements, cf. mime) from the Yajurveda, geeth (music and chant) from Samaveda, and rasa (vital sentiment and emotional element) from Atharvaveda to form the fifth Veda, NatyaVeda. After creating this Veda, Lord Brahma handed it to sage Bharata and asked him to propagate it on earth. Obeying the fiat of Lord Brahma, sage Bharata wrote down Natyashastra. Bharata together with groups of the Gandharavas and Apsaras performed natya, nrtta and nrtya before Siva. It became the most authoritative text on the artistic technique of classical Indian dances, especially Bharatanatyam and Odissi. It is also possible that the term "Bharatanatyam" partly owes its name to sage Bharata.

Bharatanatyam comprises three aspects, Nritta, Nritya and Natya.

Nritta are rhythmical and repetitive elements, i.e. it is dance proper
Natya is the dramatic art, and is a language of gestures, poses and mime. cf. Abhinaya
Nritya is a combination of Nritta and Natya

Nritta can be broadly divided into Chari, Karana, Angahara and Mandala.

One-leg movement are called Chari.
Two-leg movements are Karana.
3 Karanas make a Khanda.
3 to 4 Khandas make a Mandala.
4 to 9 Karanas make a Angahara.
4 to 5 Angaharas also make a Mandala.
108 Karanas and 32 Angaharas are defined in Natyashatra. The 13 Nritta Hastas (see below) are used to perform nritta. The rythmic body movements along with hand gestures are called aduvus. A number of aduvus constitute a jati. Jati will generally end with a Muktaya or Teermana.

There are diferent types of Aduvus: Tattaduvu, Mettaduvu, Nataduvu, Kattaduvu, Kudittamettaduvu, Maiaduvu, Mandiaduvu, Jati, Nadai, Ardi. There are 12 aduvus in each type, making it 120 aduvus in total. Only about 70-80 are generally practised by an average Bharatanatyam dancer. Aduvus are often confused with the 108 Karanas carved in the Chidambaram Temple in Tamilnadu, India.

Sage BharathA who gave us the first treatise on Naatya
Saasthram and spelled out these many moods of NaayakAs
and Naayakis many centuries ago in his treatise.He constructed
for our benefit an elaborate theory on the 41 BhAvams ,
including 33 UpabhAvams and 9 Rasams . By uniting BhAvam with
Raagam and TaaLam , ( Bh+Ra+Tha) , he gave us the Bharatha
Saasthram .

A vedAnthi by the name of Abhinava Guptha has written
a commentary for Bharatha Saasthram and described each of
the Rasams and concluded finally that there is only one rasam
at the end (i.e)., AanmIka anuubhavam or Religious Mysticism
with deep devotion that enjoys the Svaroopam of the Lord
and pays reverence to the relationship beteween Him and
the Sesha Jeevans .

There are 8 Bhaavams that generate 8 rasams .These are
named the SthAyi BhAvams .These are feeling states that
last longer compared to the other 33 BhAvams , which are
not as enduring from the perspective of time as the SthAyi
BhAvams . The well known Bharatha Naatyam artist ,
Dr. Padma Subramanyam has summarized the 8 sthAyi
BhAvams and the 8 rasams generated from them (in paranthesis)
as follows based on BharathA's original treatise:

(1)Rathi( SrungAram) (2)Hasam ( Haasyam)
(3)SOkam (KaruNA) (4)KrOdham (Roudram)
(5)UthsAkam (Veeram) (6)Bhayam (BhayAnakam)
(7)Jugupsai (BhIbathsam ) (8) Vismayam (Adhbhutham)

The UpabhAvams or non-sthAyee Bhaavams help to
transform SthAyee BhAvam into Rasams. Eleven of
these 33 UpabhAvams are:

1. nirvEdham ( dejection , longing )
2. glAni ( powerlessness and lack of strength to endure)
3. dhainyam ( helplessness )
4. smruthi( ninaivu /focused thought )
5. dhruthi( Contentment and sense of fulfilment:ThiruvAimozhi:10.10.10)
6. Outhseekyam ( impatience as recorded in the 2 madals of Kaliyan)
7. Sooptham ( Dreaming as Andal did in VaaraNamAyiram section )
8. amarsham ( deep anger: IndhaLUr Paasurams of kaliyan)
9. mathi ( Firmness of Mind and possession of True Knowledge)
10.ThrAsam ( Fear and agitation )
11.Vitharkkam ( Vaadha-PrathivAdham of Thirumazhisai and Kaliyan).


If you are more after Bharatha Natyam ,Pls contact any Dance teacher in your area and she may teach you all these in action.

Answer 5

Bharathanatyam, etc. are different kinds of expressions of the human body for depicting variety of inner and outer emotions of a person