Rabindranath Tagore Dance Drama Analysis

CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali poet of India. His name is written as Rabindranath Thakur in Indian languages. He was also a philosopher and an artist. He wrote many stories, novels, poems and dramas, as well as composing music and many songs. His writings greatly influenced Bengali culture during the late 19th century and early 20th century. In 1913, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Asian to win this prize. He was popularly known as Gurudev. His real name was Rabindranath Thakur.
Rabindra Nritya Natya is the term given to the dance dramas composed by Rabindranath Tagore. The principal characteristic of these works is that the story is told entirely through dance and song. The dances included in them were in the dance form created by Tagore. The characters get fully involved in the dance and they perform the whole play entirely through songs and dance. The key point in these dance drama is the expressions and the mudras of the characters.
There are many dance drama’s written by Rabindranath Tagore such as Shayama, Chitrangna, Chandalika, Mayar khela, Tasher Desh, Biday Abhshap and many more. In this project I would particularly be writing about Chandalika, a dance drama about an untouchable girl who loves to dance and falls in love with a Brahmin boy.
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Being an untouchable they lived on the outskirts of the village. One day Prakriti was sitting beside a well which was near her house. Her mother came searching for her and when she found her sitting near the well she asked her why is she sitting outside in the blistering sun? To this Prakriti said that she is waiting for a monk who came to her and asked for water. Prakriti’s mother was shocked to hear this and scolded her that she is an untouchable and she cannot give anything to a person who does not belong to their