Grade 6 - theory

Question 1

what does abhinayam mean?

Answer 1

a dancer showing the audience a meaningful subject by using facial expression and body movements according to the tala

Question 2

what are the 4 types of abhinayam?

Answer 2

• angikam
• vaachikam
• aaharyam
• saathvikam

Question 3

how is angikam abhinayam done?

Answer 3

angas (various parts of the body)

Question 4

what angikam abhinayas are there?

Answer 4

• angam
• pratyangam
• upangam

Question 5

how many angam and what?

Answer 5

6 - hands, head, waist, sides, chest, feet

Question 6

how many pratyangam and what?

Answer 6

6 - shoulder blades, arms, legs, back, thighs, stomach

Question 7

how many upangam and what?

Answer 7

11 - eyebrows, eyelids, eyeballs, nose, cheeks, lips, teeth, tongue, chin, jaw, face

Question 8

what is vachikam abhinayam?

Answer 8

to explain a theme through words (like dancing to a song)

Question 9

what vachikam abhinayas are there?

Answer 9

• sugeetha
• upageetha
• susaptha
• upasaptha

Question 10

sugeetha?

Answer 10

dancer will sing and dance simultaneously

Question 11

upageetha?

Answer 11

dancer will dance and another artist will sing

Question 12

susaptha?

Answer 12

dancer will dance without accompaniment

Question 13

upasaptha?

Answer 13

dancer dances to miruthangam rhythm

Question 14

what is aaharya abhinayam?

Answer 14

an art - about dressing, jewellry and make-up and using it to express dancer’s characteristics, status … to the audience

Question 15

what is saathvikam abhinayam?

Answer 15

the outward expression of inner emotions

Question 16

what psychological changes are there in saathvikam?

Answer 16

8 - paralysis, fainting, thrill, perspiration, change of colour, trembling, weeping, change of voice

Question 17

who classified the ashta nayakis in natya sastra?

Answer 17

Bharat Muni

Question 18

how were the ashta nayakis classified?

Answer 18

according to different emotional states or moods

Question 19

what categories were the nayakis classified into?

Answer 19

• swadheena bhartruka (patika)
• vasaka sajiika
• virahothkantitha
• vipralabdha
• khanditha
• kalahantaritha
• proshitabhatruka
• abhisarika

Question 20

swadheena bhratruka?

Answer 20

-The nayaki who is proud of her husband, her nayaka who tends to pleases her in every way
-she worships god for her beloved

Question 21

vasaka sajiika?-

Answer 21

-the nayaki who is ready to receive her nayaka and decorates everything
-dresses well and joyful, arranges bed with flowers, keeps looking out

Question 22

virahothkantitha?

Answer 22

-the nayaki who is distessed in her nayakas absense and yearns for his arrival
-trembles, tearful, expresses anxiety to her sakis

Question 23

vipralabdha?

Answer 23

-the nayaki who is deceived and disappointed with her nayaka’s unkept promise
-depressed, faints

Question 24

khanditha?

Answer 24

-the nayaki who has discovered her nayaka is cheating on her (infidelity)
-doesn’t let him come close, indifferent to his words, heartbroken

Question 25

kalahantarita?

Answer 25

-the nayaki who is sorrowful as she is separated from her nayaka due to jealousy
-regrets her harsh words, wonders whether she has lost him forever

Question 26

proshitabhartruka?

Answer 26

-the nayaki who is suffering in the absence of her nayaka (gone far away)
-sleepless, neglectful of her appearance

Question 27

abhisarika?

Answer 27

-the nayaki who goes out to meet her lover with passionate feeling
-happy, decorates herself

Question 28

what abhisarika nayakes are there?

Answer 28

• jyotsnabhisarika = goes in white clothes in moonlight with white flowers to meet her lover
• divabhisarika = wears colourful clothes in the daytime to meet her lover
• tamobhisarika = goes in black, blue and red clothes at night with blue lotus to meet her lover