Every dancing style has its own history. There are seven styles of dance, which have recently become classical in India.

South styles are Kuchipudi, Bharatanatyam, Mohiniattam, Kathakali; east style is Odissi; north style is Kathak; east-west styles are Manipuri and Sattria. The eighth style of Indian Classical dance was accepted Sattria

in 2000.

Classical Indian Dance is called so, because it is following by the canons, which are imaged in the old treaties “Natya Shastra” (“The Science About Theatre”), “Abhinaya Darpana” (“The Mirror of Actor`s Expressiveness”), “Nritya Vinoda”.

The feature of this art is the sequence of actions of different parts of the body of a dancer. Canon prescribes the special movements of a head, eyes, a neck, eyebrows, a nose, a breast, feet and body; different kinds of dance pa and poses; a famous language of facial expressions and gestures.