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In response to Aniruddhan Vasudevan’s article ‘What is “not Bharatanatyam”’, I’d like to hear your views on this debate. It seems that increasingly, dancers are under pressure to innovate, and in innovating, are attracting different responses to their work. Dancers are incorporating and using movements in their choreographies that audiences are not used to seeing. Does this make it “not Bharatanatyam”? Dancers defend themselves by stating that such movements are in the Natya Shastra but have not been used for a long time. Do we really know if indeed such movements were used in that dance form? If the Natya Shastra is the guidebook for all the classical forms, how do we know what belongs to Bharatanatyam, or Odissi or Kuchipudi?
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