Kandyan Dance

 KANDYAN DANCE

Encompasses various dance forms popular and native to the area called Kandy of the central hills region know as Udarata in Sri Lanka. 

Which have today spread to other parts of the country . It shows the Sinhala culture in Sri Lanka.

Even thought orginally  only males were allowed train as dancers. There are now several schools which also train women in the Kandyan dance form. However , there is no definite ves costume for women. And many female dancers have adapted the male costume in different ways.

There are only a few performance of the kohomba kankariya now due to many social.

 Economic and political reason. The dance in its traditional form is still performed each year at the dalada perahera in Kandy. The Kandy dance was adapted for the stage by Chitrasena Dias in the 1970s .In several ballets he choreographed , he has used kandyan dance movements and features. In some ways his popularity also helped to reduce the caste dance and made it more palatable to an urban.

Traditional and ritual kandyan dance is still taught in same village dance schools like Madyama Lanka Nritya Mandalaya.

Many contemporary dancers in Sri Lanka have borrowed from the kandyan from for their work.