Today in a modern, ever changing world, there are various impacts of modernity and so a spate of innovations have crept into this tradition bound art. Tradition and innovation, what a colossal conflict between the well-meaning adherents of these two! The result, is today there are four different types of schools each one clamouring to assert its own tenets and view points.

The first is the school of tradition and nothing but tradition. The protagonists and followers of this school live in a sequestered cloister, never bothering about the changes happening around the vast field of art, but teaching and practicing the age-old traditional and classical dances handed down to them by their ancestors. Such artists no doubt adhere very strictly to the regulations laid down by previous maestros of hoary lineage and quite often argue that what their ancestors have created are the acme of perfection in dance and hence none can emulate them or even come near them in any dance creation!

What a strange view point, because is there any art which has absolute perfection never to be surpassed? Anyway such dance forms have a tendency to stagnate and become stylised and cramped through years of isolation like the steady degeneration of the progeny of closely intermingled families which imbibe blood. This school of tradition is fading gradually.