DEFINITION OF FOLLOWING TERMS TODA SALAMI THAAT TIHAI

DEFINITION OF FOLLOWING TERMS • TODA • SALAMI • THAAT • TIHAI • AAMAD BY: - KAVITA

TODA • Toda is performed after aamad. it is a combination of words , which is repeated twice. • It has only bols like tat thun tigdha digdig thai, it has a simple laya. • One gets the first lesson in thoda while learning kathak.

SALAMI • Salami is a Persian word. It means to greet. It is not a very old word in Kathak. • Like Amad, That etc. words entered Kathak, similarliy, Salami was used mughal period when court dancers used to greet the darbaries with a salam before commencing their performance. • With the passage of time the form of salami was changed. In mughal darbar they did salami after doing a short tukda finishing it with a tihai. • In hindu darbars dancers did namskar with a short tukda and salami changed its form.

THHAT • Thhat is the first step of dance and is performed in many ways. Sometimes an artist picks a small tukda with lehra and reaches sam with a special style, this too is thhat. • In Kathak dance Thhat has a very special role to play because standing before audience in Thhat mudra the dancer scan the audience and the entire auditorium. Audience can also assess the dancer. • Movement of the wrist, expression, movement, neck gesture etc. add aesthetic to Thaat. • It is done slow pace or vilambit laya.

AAMAD • Aamad means to come or to enter. In Persian there is a word OMED, Ammad is derived from it. • It is belived that the use of Aamad began in mughal period, but now it has become an integral part of Kathak. • All the four gharanas of Kathak the todas of Aamad are performed diffrently. Dancers from Jaipur and Lucknow gharana complete their Aamad by tathei tat thei or thei tat thei.

TIHAI • Repetition of any beat or rhythmic phrase (Bol or a group of bol) 3 times and ends on sum is Tihai. • Tihai can begin or any beat (matra) of taal but always ends on sum. • It can be as small as repetition of beat 1, 1, 1 or dha or it can be take entire avartan.