My Favorite Dance😍😍😍

Dance is an art. We have to be very lucky to get that art. I like all the dance in the world and I like all the dances in it. But I like our local traditional dance a lot. Among them the Kandyan dance tradition is the most serious dance art. From its dance I know many of stories about the dancing. So, Kuweni  Asna is my favorite dance. 

 

The Kuweni Asna dance was first performed at the Kohomba Yak Kankari  Shanthi karma held to heal king Panduwasdew. Kuweni Asna dance is a dance form with singing . this dance is about Kuweni. Here beautiful poems are sung according to different tunes. Among those poems, Kuweni mentioned. "Dan sondura thaniwa mama " is the my favorite poem in the Kuweni asna. There are various stories like how Kuweni lived with king Vijaya, how she was expelled, and how she lived without her husband. It also  includes the curse placed on King Vijaya by Kuweni. 

 

This dance is performed with a coconut torch and " ea gasa ". This dance is performed as a making circle. In this dance, emotions are used well. This is an energetic dance as well as some very beautiful dance steps. Only dancers dance in the sanctum sanctorum, where they use Wes dance costume. On stage, this is danced by both male and female. The female dancers also wear the Pahinpath dance costume and male dancers also wear the Wes dance costume.

 

So, I like the way of costume, the make up, and the style of this dance all have to do with it, And it's performed many times in various places. So, I like this one a lot.