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Kathak performance by Sharmila Sharma and Rajendra Kumar Gangani at the Guimet Museum (November 2007)
Kathak is a form of Indian classical dance. The dance style in its formative phase was inseparably linked with Krishna legend.[1] The word Kathak comes from the word katha which means "story".[2]
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Vāsudeva-krishna and Gopala-Krishna, as well as Narayana, developed in the 7th to 4th century BCE. It was integrated with the Vedic God Vishnu in the early...
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art was developed and practiced by monks in the form dance-dramas about legends and mythologies of Krishna, particularly from texts such as the Bhāgavata...
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