Bharatanatyam Dance Lessons - Asamyuta and Samyuta Hastas

Indian classical dances are often acclaimed as verily being a language unto themselves - the language of gestures. Indeed, it is possible to communicate with great profundity and eloquence several shades of meaning simply by using the hands in different manner. This ingenious system of using hand gestures to communicate as part of angika abhinaya has been beautifully presented in the classical text, Abhinaya Darpana, b