Atsuko Maeda performs Kathak conventional dance in New Delhi on Saturday.
15:56 JST, January 15, 2023
NEW DELHI (Jiji Press) — A Japanese girl carried out Kathak, one of many 4 main classical dances in India, at a dance and music occasion amongst foreigners held in New Delhi on Saturday.
Atsuko Maeda, 45, was invited to the occasion after being awarded the highest prize within the Kathak division for the occasion. Kathak options rhythmic footwork, with small bells adorned across the ankles of dancers.
The occasion, the primary of its form, was held by a company affiliated with the Indian authorities to advertise Indian tradition to foreigners and Indians dwelling overseas.
Maeda carried out in 4 Indian cities with not solely fellow Kathak dancers but in addition dancers aside from Kathak artists from nations together with Malaysia and Hungary. Saturday’s efficiency was the final present within the newest occasion.
“I felt the vitality of India,” Maeda stated after the day’s present. “I might dance for a piece created with the theme of ‘the world is one household’ with buddies I met for the primary time.”
Maeda, who was born in Kobe, started Kathak on the age of 6 after transferring to Tokyo.
She teaches Kathak, which developed as a court docket dance in northern India, in Japan and is lively each at house and overseas as a Kathak dancer. “What’s nice about Kathak is that dancers can specific any type of world view by making a rhythm with only one footstep,” she stated.
