Thursday 2 February 2012

Khajuraho Dance Festival 2012 - Dance Festival at Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, India


Khajuraho Dance Festival



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Khajuraho Dance Festival is organised every year in the last week of of February till march , the dates of khajuraho dance festival for the year 2012 is from 01st February 2012 till 07th of February 2012. The best classical dancers from all across india give their performances in the open air corridors of the Khajuraho group of temples. Here you can enjoy the popular dances of India such as Kathak, Bharatnatyam, Kuchipudi, Odissi, Manipuri and many


Khajuraho Dance Festival (Image Courtesy:2camels.com)khajuraho-dance-festival more. The Tourism board of Madhya Pradesh is organising and promoting the Indian Heritage Khajuraho as well as the dances of India , and provides platform to the young dancers to show their talent infront of the visitors from all around the globe. It is important cultural event that fascinates aficionados of traditional asian performing art. The dance festival is being orgainised infront of chitragupt and vishwanath temples, located in the western group of temple complex.

Dancers from abroad give their performance during this week long dance festival. The Khajuraho dance festival is internationally recognized by International dancers and acedemies. A large number of visitors come to see the popular dances of India in this festival. Khajuraho dance festival in Madhya Pradesh celebrates the beauty of human emotions and religious philosphy of hindu religon.

Along with this dance festival, art & craft work is also displayed by the local villages. The western group of temples act as the equisite backdrop for the khajuraho dance festival performers.



 

 

 

History of Khajuraho Temples 

Khajuraho Temples History : Madhya Pradesh is land of great antiquity. Madhya Pradesh is the home of monuments representative of various periods of history. Among most popular world heritage sites of Central India like Rock paintings, Buddhist Stupas and Temples, Khajuraho is known for its ornate temples that are spectacular piece of human imagination, artistic creativity, magnificent architectural work and deriving spiritual peace through eroticism.

Khajuraho Temples are among the most beautiful medieval monuments in the country. These temples were built by the Chandella ruler between AD 900 and 1130. It was the golden period of Chandella rulers. It is presumed that it was every Chandella ruler has built atleast one temple in his lifetime. So all Khajuraho Temples are not constructed by any single Chandella ruler but Temple building was a tradition of Chandella rulers and followed by almost all rulers of Chandella dynasty.

The first recorded mention of the Khajuraho temples is in the accounts of Abu Rihan al Biruni in AD 1022 and the Arab traveler Ibn Battuta in AD 1335. Local tradition lists 85 temples in Khajuraho out of which only 25 temples are surviving after various stages of preservation and care. All these temples are scattered over an area of about 9 square miles.

Khajuraho is believed to be the religious capital of Chandellas. Chandella rulers had tried to discriminate politics from religious & cultural activities, so they established their political capital in Mahoba which is about 60km. away from Khajuraho and religious/cultural capital in Khajuraho. Whole Khajuraho was enclosed by a wall with about 8 gates used for entry/exit. It is believed that each gate is flanked by two date/palm trees. Due to these date trees present Khajuraho get its name Khajura-vahika. In hindi language, “Khajura” means ‘Date’ and “Vahika” means ‘Bearing’. In history Khajuraho is also described with the name of Jejakbhukti.


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After fall of Chandella dynasty (after AD 1150), Khajuraho Temples suffered destruction & disfigurement by muslim invaders in this area which forced local people to leave Khajuraho. As muslim invaders had a ruling policy of intolerance for worship places of other religions so all the citizens of Khajuraho left the town with a hope that its solitude will not attract attention of muslim invaders into the temple area and in this way both temple and they themselves will remain unhurt. So from about 13th century to 18th century, Khajuraho temples remain in forest cover, away from popularity till it was re-discovered by British engineer T. S. Burt.



Khajuraho Dance Festival 2012 Schedule

 Check out day by day events in the coming Khajuraho Dance Festival 2012 starting from February. Live performances include Odissi and Bharatnatyam by famous Indian classical dancers. We will update this information very soon.


Khajuraho Dance Festival 2012
February 2012
- Odissi Group
- Kathak Solo


February 2012
- Bharatnatyam Solo
- Manipuri Group


February 2011
- Mohiniattam Solo
- Kathak Solo


February 2012
Group Dance Performance -

 


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Some Videos For Khajuraho Dance Festival 

 

 

1 comment:

  1. Nice festival all the Indian classical dances & performances can be seen at one place wonderful event.

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