Abhinaya | Sattwik Abhinaya | Aharya Abhinaya | Angik Abhinaya |  Asamyukta | Samyukta

The Angik abhinaya  portray actions and reflect emotions  through movements of the three different parts of the body.

 (a) Anga or major portions, including  the hands, legs, head, hips and chest .

(b) Pratyanga or intermediate parts such as the neck, shoulders, back, stomach, elbows, thighs, knees and ankles.

(c) Upanga or minor portions such as the lips, the mouth, the teeth, the tongue, the nose, the cheeks, and the eyes.

The movements of these various parts are correlated.

 There are three subdivisions of the angik abhinaya. They are  

(1)  Ankur movements that include the rechaka (movements ) of the head, the dristi or glances of the eyes, the movement  of the eye brows and the eyelids, the addiyam  of  the neck, the rechaka  of the cheeks, the chin, the lips, the face or movements of any of the intermediary parts of the body such as the shoulders, the waist or the stomach. Positions of the feet are also included here.

(2)Nritta, or standardized movements and poses  as the various postures  for deities to suggest  meditation  or spiritual calm. There are the the brahmani or spiral movements, the utplavana  or leaping  movements and the chari and gati  or gait movements.

(3) Shakha  or hand movements.

Hasta mudra or gestures of the hands play a very important  part in Indian dancing. They symbolize  either an emotion, mood  or a some object or an animal or a person. The two most important varieties are 

 (a) Asamyukta or single -hand gestures

 (b) Samyukta or double hand gestures

 

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