Dance Poem by Gangadharan nair Pulingat..

Dance, the wonderful art of human being
From wild to modern era it was there
Dance the most interested body movements
Always an accepted mode of entertainment.

Dance the primitive tribe's leisure art
In gradual growth of civilization it changed
To the circumstances, comforts of humans
And reforms in drums and musical instruments.

Dance the Indian context and civilizations
Harappa and Mohanjadaro civilisations
New methods of classic arts and musics
Slowly but steadily new experiments made.

Classical forms of dances arrived
When Sanskrit literature and poetry improved
Beliefs and customs of progressions noticed
Classical music and dance forms they directed.

The world itself treated as the gift of god
The worldly matters and lives are part of it
Different forms of dances resembling cosmic dance
Highly classical and wonderful, body movements
where yogic and mystical experiences seen.

Kathakali the unique classical art of kerala
Koodiyattam also another classical art
Mohiniyattam, the famous classical dance
Spiritual, holistic, and material themes includes
Wonderful flexibility for body movements
Dance the great art form world over
In different names and musical forms performs.

Not to exclude the famous and wonderful folklore
where hundreds of dance forms now in practice
Theyyam, Mudiyettu like folklores
Having such great classical dance body movements
Wonderful creativity of steps they perform
In the open theater of villages they dances.