Once an artist, who was copying a masterpiece in a Museum Art Gallery, when questioned, remarked "I am copying this, because I do not want even a single line of this to be reproduced in my creations". Such is the revolt of the free thinking modern artist. This revolution in all art has resulted in Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism and a host of such modern trends, These trends have crept into most arts of the modern world including India. India is a country bound firmly by tradition and hence any transgression into tradition and classicism is vehemently looked down upon and vociferously opposed.

Almost all Indian Arts claim a divine origin and it is but natural that the doyens of art maintain a strict vigil on the 'Pristine Purity' of Indian Art. Since the dawn of the twentieth century and specially so, since 1930s, there has been a resurgence in various forms of Indian Art. For a long time Art was a shunned topic in most so-called cultured and sophisticated circles which based their progress on a pseudo Anglo-phallic bias. But, as the will of the people asserted itself, art gained a special impetus and there came the general renaissance in Indian Art. But, even this Renaissance demanded the preservation of Classicism and Tradition, and just as well, because this strict adherence to tradition has kept alive the Indian prestige, Indian folk-lore, Indian mythology and philosophies.

Ever since the emergence of India as a sovereign state, the state of affairs in Indian Art, specially dance had changed enormously. Most purists clamour for preserving the pristine purity of our classical dances - tradition bound and pattern perfected. But the modern generation which has separate dynamic views regarding tradition and progress believes that in the classical dance,