Monday 2 January 2017

Dance Performance In Nepal

Taplejung is in northeastern Nepal the Tamur River flows through the district. The area is home of Kangchenjunga (8586 m), the third highest mountain in the world. Taplejung has an airstrip with commercial flights to Biratnagar and Kathmandu. A road connects the district headquarters with the Tarai plains.
Most of the population is involved in agriculture, and the vegetation zones range from sub-tropical to temperate forests, alpine meadows, and snow, and ice. References to dance can be found in very early recorded history Greek dance is referred to by Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch and Lucian. The Bible and Talmud refer to many events related to dance, and contain over 30 different dance terms.
In Chinese pottery as early as the Neolithic period, groups of people is depicted dancing in a line holding hands, and the earliest Chinese word for “dance” is found written in the oracle bones. Dance is further described in the. Primitive dance in ancient China was associated with sorcery and shamanic rituals.

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