Indian Classical Dance is made up of three components: Natya, Nritya & Nritta. Dramatic performance means Natya where as rhythmic movements of the dance is Nritta and elements that express RASA^sentiments and BHAVE^mood conveyed through Gestures and Facial Expressions.

NRITYA^dance and NATYA^drama express four techniques collectively defined as – ABHINAYA^{expression or performance}. These are Angik^{gestures of the body}, Vachik^{song, rhythm and music}, Aharya^{make up and costume} and Satvik^{physical manifestation of mental and emotional states}.

According to Mythology of Hindu, it is “SHIVA”- the lord of Dance in his performance as “NATRAJ” whose dance represents the existence of Universe and its distraction. In Sanskrit, the ancient text on Dance and Drama titled “Natya Shastra” has been written by an ancient sage BHARATMUNI. The Knowledge content within this has been passed down to the centuries and undergoing adaptation as times fashion change.

Dance has been used therapeutically for thousands of years. It has been used as a healing ritual in the influence of fertility, birth, sickness, and death, since earliest human history but, the establishment of dance as a therapy and as a profession occurred in the 1950s. Over the period 1840 to 1930, a new philosophy of dance developed in Europe and the United States, defined by the idea that movements could have an effect on the mover i.e. that dance was not simply an expressive art.

Dance therapy is the psycho-therapeutic use of movement and dance to support intellectual, emotional, and motor functions of the body. As a form of expressive therapy, DT looks at the correlation between movement and emotion. DT is practiced in various clinical settings. Although dance has been a method of expression for centuries, it wasn’t until the past half century that it was characterized as a form of therapy.