{"id":441,"date":"2017-12-07T09:48:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T04:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/blog\/?p=441"},"modified":"2017-12-07T09:48:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T04:18:02","slug":"rare-dance-form-in-india-charkula-dance-of-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/2017\/12\/07\/rare-dance-form-in-india-charkula-dance-of-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Dance Form in India &#8211; Charkula Dance of UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-442\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Charkula.jpg\" alt=\"Charkula Dance\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With a belief that Lord Krishna\u2019s wife Radha was born on the third day after Holi, the inhabitants of Braj region of Uttar Pradesh\u00a0religiously perform this dance every year. The women drape\u00a0themselves in colorful outfits and move rhythmically to the tunes of Lord Krishna\u2019s songs or \u2018rasiyas\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The movements are extremely graceful in spite of the charkulas (a large multi-tiered wooden pyramid) balancing over their head. The charkulas are said be lighted by 108 oil wicks. The dance form is enthused by many legendary stories related to Radha and Krishna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; With a belief that Lord Krishna\u2019s wife Radha was born on the third day after Holi, the inhabitants of Braj region of Uttar Pradesh\u00a0religiously perform this dance every year. The women drape\u00a0themselves in colorful outfits and move rhythmically to the tunes of Lord Krishna\u2019s songs or \u2018rasiyas\u2019. The movements are extremely graceful in spite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[12,13,14,15,77,78,19,20,33],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-miscellany","category-lae-dance","tag-ambalam","tag-eambalam","tag-life-skills-in-schools","tag-lifearteducation","tag-charkula","tag-charkula-dance","tag-life-art-education","tag-online-bharatanatyam","tag-online-dance-courses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifearteducation.in\/laeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}