mohiniyattam in A Sentence

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    According to Reginald Massey, Mohiniyattam's history is unclear.

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    Unlike other typical Indian dances, Mohiniyattam is a solo performance.

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    Mohiniyattam is a traditional dance from Kerala, South India, which appeared in the 16th century.

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    Her son Kalasala Babu was a cinema and television actor, while her granddaughter Smitha Rajan is a noted Mohiniyattam artiste.

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    The woman who dances Mohiniyattam has to be able to“dance” with her eyes and express with them both shyness and sensuality.

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    The ridicule and bans enacted during the British colonial era contributed to nationalist sentiments, and impacted all Hindu performance arts including Mohiniyattam.

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    Devika has given lecture-demonstrations and paper-presentations in various schools and institutes in India and in Universities abroad propagating Mohiniyattam and Malayalam literature, music, and poetry through her art.

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    She turned professional dancer at the age of 12 and had accompanied her grand mother, her mother, and her aunt all over India and abroad to numerous venues during the pursuit of popularizing Mohiniyattam in 1980.

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    In 2002, she was invited to perform at the prestigious International Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, UK, where it was for the first time in its history that Mohiniyattam was presented and was received very well by the audience and art critics.

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    Her performances at dance concerts in the USA, Europe, Australia, Esplanade theatre Singapore, and for major festivals like the Kerala Fine Arts Society and the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar youth festival, have been praised for how she has redefined Mohiniyattam by exploring universal human emotions.

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