
The culture and art had an impactful influence on Kathak dance.ĭancers also began to disintegrate due to the dismantling of temples. The advent of Islamic rule around the 13th century influenced Indian civilization to a great extent. Through this adoption and propagation, Valmiki Ji is identified as the first "Kathak" (verb). Their way of performing these musical stories was adopted by the masses as means of livelihood and that's how they adopted the identity of the Kushilavas. It also helped them establish themselves. According to our mythological stories, Luv and Kush sang the Ramayana composed by Maharishi Valmiki in the court of Lord Ram, which influenced the public. Kathak is also one of the first Indian classical dance forms that have developed extensively by adapting all aspects of the social, cultural, and traditional conditions of every era in its art.Īnother synonym of Kathak is found in Sanskrit shlokas known as "Kushilav". From north to south and east to west - this dance form is omnipresent, popularised, and well-known. Kathak has an important place in the classical dance styles of India. Kathak has mutated itself according to the present scenario be it freshness, newness, in terms of freedom, stage, scope of creativity, acceptance of new ideas with amalgamation of old ones and leave scope of criticism and analysis too. This is the first dance form of kushilav and charna nritta other than tandav and lasya.

Kashmir in north to Kanyakumari in South, tripura in East to Pakistan in west kathak is popularly known as a classical dance. Kathak has the monopoly over north India in terms of classical Dance. Kathak has a very beautiful and important place in all of the Classical dance form of India.
