{"id":25791,"date":"2024-08-13T07:21:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T01:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25791"},"modified":"2025-04-07T21:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T15:42:40","slug":"gotipua-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gotipua-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotipua Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Gotipua Dance:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the majestic <strong>folk dance of Orissa which is <\/strong>the precursor to the classical <strong>Odissi dance form.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the Odisha language, <strong>\u201cGoti\u201d<\/strong> means \u201c<strong>single<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>Pua\u201d<\/strong> means \u201c<strong>boy\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In this children are trained in singing, dancing, yoga, and acrobatics within gurukuls or akhadas .<\/li>\n<li>They dress as girls and perform at temple festivals, social gatherings, and religious ceremonies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>In ancient times, the <strong>temples of Orissa<\/strong> had female dancers called \u201c<strong>Devadasi or Mahari<\/strong> (in Orissa)\u201d who were devoted to Lord Jagannath.<\/li>\n<li>During the time of <strong>Bhoi king Rama Chandra Dev<\/strong> with the decline of the Mahari dancers, the class of these boy dancers came into existence in Orissa, to carry out the tradition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In its present form, the Gotipua Dance is more precise and systematic in its conception.\n<ul>\n<li>Its performance includes <strong>Vandana<\/strong> (prayer to God, or a guru), <strong>Abhinaya<\/strong> (the enactment of a song) and <strong>Bandha Nritya<\/strong> (rhythms of acrobatic postures)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bandha Nritya<\/strong> is a demonstration of physical prowess requiring great agility and flexibility. Preferably performed in adolescence, with age, this dance form becomes increasingly difficult to execute.<\/li>\n<li>The dancers make <strong>extensive use<\/strong> of their <strong>hands and feet<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Musical accompaniment to the Gotipua Dance is provided by the <strong>mardala <\/strong>(a pakhawaj), <strong>gini (<\/strong>small cymbals), <strong>harmonium, violin and flute<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Folk arts?<\/h3>\n<p>It reflects the cultural life of a community. The art form encompasses the expressive culture associated with the fields of folklore and cultural heritage. Tangible folk art can include objects which historically are crafted and used within a traditional community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/odisha\/the-dancers-who-stumble-from-boyhood-stardom-to-adulthood-anonymity\/article68512086.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The dancers who stumble from boyhood stardom to adulthood anonymity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotipua Dance  is the majestic folk dance of Orissa which is the precursor to the classical Odissi dance form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}