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Temple Dancer Mari Jinishian from a scene in 1001 Nights THE BAYADERES
    The Bayadères was a religious Oriental dance of India. The dancers/ singers were called a Bayadères or TEMPLE DANCERS, while non-Temple dancers were known as Tavaifs. In Indian belief, Tavaifs were married to trees and flowers and Temple Dancers were married to the deity (a god) and were labeled as 'devadasi' (a servant of God), later Temple dancers would be known as Bayadères.

    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).
also see: Bayaderes Page 2

Birth Place

Creation Date

Creator

Dance Type

India

?2nd century?

n/a

Religious
 

Posters, Lobby Cards etc.

Sheet Music Covers

Music Titles

Eldorado Music Hall

n/a

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)
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Locations

n/a

Adelphi Theatre (1838)

Mohenjo Daro

           

Harappa
           

Indus valley
           

Bali
 

Instructional / Exercise

Television

Ballets / Stage

Russian Fireworks (DVD)

n/a

La Bayadères (Nureyev)

$1945 -1001 Nights

      

Les Bayaderes (1705)

                 
           

Publications
           

$ Widows, Pariahs, and Bayaderes (Mehta)

           

Les Bayaderes (Catel)
           

$ Fenton: Pasha and Bayadere

           

10/1952 - Theatre Arts magazine
 

Other Related Dances of the time...

Oriental

Kathak

Ballet

Belly Dance

n/a

Gypsy Dance (Gipsi)

gondhal dance,

Bharadi

    
 

Dancers, Choreographers etc.

Political

Augusta

Marius Petipa

n/a

Rudolph Nureyev

Mari Jinishian (1001 nights) pictured

      
 

Books, Magazine Articles on the dance...

Title

Author

Date Published

Publisher

Les Bayaderes

Charles-Simon Catel

n/a

Broude Brothers
                       
 

Musicians

Artists

Poets / Writers

Simon, Charles (1773-1830)

Nikolai Afanasievich Rusakov

n/a

Catel

        

Auber, Daniel F. (1854)

        
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Misc. Research Words that may be related ... to help your searches

Oriental

devadasis

naach (dance)

Mantra

Cadiz

manjira (Cymbals)

nautch

Tantra

Vishnu

makaras

Bharata Natyam

Belly Dance

     
 

Other...

n/a