Joy of Dancing

I am a passionate Indian classical dancer. My journey of learning dance started when I was only seven years old. I first started learning dance as a hobby but as years passed, my hobby turned into my passion for dancing. Now I am a trained Kathak dancer (Jaipur Gharana). Dance gives me an immense pleasure. During this time of the Covid-19 pandemic, when most of the people are stressful, anxious, depressed and uncertain about future, I think dance acts as a stress buster. Whenever I feel low and stressful, I start practicing Kathak. Kathak acts like a meditation for me, bringing positive effect on my body and mind. It makes me feel very energetic, happy, relaxed and confident.    Being a passionate dancer, I was always curious to know about the origin of dance. If we look at the origin of dance, we find that archaeological evidence for early dance are found in Egypt and India. 3300 BC Egyptian tomb paintings depicted dancing figures. In India, more than 9000 years ol...