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kathak|kəˈtɑːk|
[Skr., = professional storyteller.]
a. A North Indian caste of story-tellers and musicians; a member of this caste.
b. A North Indian classical dance composed of passages of mime alternating with passages of dance.
1931E. A. H. Blunt Caste System of N. India 244 Kathak.—These religious troubadours carefully preserve their ancient ballads, and allow nobody to tamper with them. 1941‘La Meri’ Gesture Lang. Hindu Dance 17 Pantomime is relatively unimportant in Kathak, virtuosity being entirely in the feet. 1957G. B. L. Wilson Dict. Ballet 158 Kathak, one of the four main forms of Indian dancing. 1959Marg. XII. iv. 10 Thakur Prasad, a Kathak, migrated to Lucknow about the beginning of the 19th century and became the Court Dancer of Wajid Ali Shah. Ibid. 12 The contribution which the Jaipur gharana has made to the preservation and spread of the Kathak dance is very considerable. To this school goes the credit of having given us some of our best Kathaks. 1967Singha & Massey Indian Dances xv. 125 The word Kathak, story-teller, derives from ‘katha’ which means story. 1969Amrita Bazar Patrika 5 Aug. 4/6 The group-dances were generally imposing based on the kathak, and soft touch of Manipuri and choreographer Namita Chatterjee intelligently introduced the various folk-dances—Rajasthani, Manipuri, Garba, Lotus to avoid the spell of monotony. 1969Cultural News from India Nov. 25 To observe the sixtieth birth-day of Ustad Dabir Khan a two-hour Saraswat Veena and Surbahar recital was given... Munawar Ali Khan (vocal), Ustad Bahadur Khan (sarod), Bandana Sen (Kathak dance) and Keramatullah (tabla) were among those who took part in the programme. 1971E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 10 Apr. 6/7 Apart from the film songs, there was a delightful Kathak group dance by three very young pupils of Uma Devi. |