If a family had to many daughters they could marry them off to the temple, which they could return later and become an heir which at the time only males could do and they (Bayadères) could even adopt children. This was so accepted at the time that no respectable wife in India would admit to ever being trained to sing
and dance as those were done only by the lower class dancing girls. Britain (occupied in 1799) outlawed Bayadères sometime in the 1800s due to the kidnapping of girls to fill the temples. In 1838 the Bayaderes, a troupe of eight Indian dancers performed at the the Adelphi Theatre.
Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, states: The angels said to Lot: 'There are players of the pipe (organ) in the country, hence it ought to be destroyed'. It's rabbinical identification with the aboda, the flute of the notorious Syrian Bayaderes. (p. 460, Abingdon).
India
?2nd century?
n/a
Religious
Eldorado Music Hall
Airs de Danses des Bayadères (Catel)
Gypsy - Romany Rye
Dance of the Bayaderes
Gypsy Wildcat
$ Russian Fireworks: Dance of the Bayaderes #2
Flower Drum Song
? and the Bayadere (Adelphi 1854)
Adelphi Theatre (1838)
Mohenjo Daro
Harappa
Indus valley
Bali
Russian Fireworks (DVD)
La Bayadères (Nureyev)
$1945 -1001 Nights
Les Bayaderes (1705)
$ Widows, Pariahs, and Bayaderes (Mehta)
Les Bayaderes (Catel)
$ Fenton: Pasha and Bayadere
10/1952 - Theatre Arts magazine
Oriental
Kathak
Ballet
Belly Dance
Gypsy Dance (Gipsi)
gondhal dance,
Bharadi
Augusta
Marius Petipa
Rudolph Nureyev
Mari Jinishian (1001 nights) pictured
Les Bayaderes
Charles-Simon Catel
Broude Brothers
Simon, Charles (1773-1830)
Nikolai Afanasievich Rusakov
Catel
Auber, Daniel F. (1854)
devadasis
naach (dance)
Mantra
Cadiz
manjira (Cymbals)
nautch
Tantra
Vishnu
makaras
Bharata Natyam
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