Dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time, painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space. The creator and the thing being created, artist and the work are still being the same. Rhythmical patterns of movement, the plastic sense of space, the vivid representation of the word seen and and imagined – these things man creates in his own body in the dance before he uses substances and stone and word to give expression to his inner experience. Failure to understand and appreciate dancing is failure to understand not merely the supreme manifestation of physical life, but also the supreme symbol of spiritual life. What then is dancing? and its significance? Dancing in its widest sense is the personalised human reaction to the appeal of a general rhythm, which marks not only human life but also the universe. It is this rhythm, which regulates the universe and is the most essential and basic requirement of human life. Mans heart has to beat a well defined perfect rhythm, any irregularity in this rhythm would result in illness and the break for a little while in this rhythm would spell certain death. The monotonous lapping of the waves of the sea is to a rhythm and at regular intervals this accentuates and then once again subsides to the original rhythm. It is this rhythm, which we called laya that influences all the physical and spiritual manifestation of life. The art of dancing would mean two different components Form (Tangible) and Content (Intangible). To the Indian concept of dance, neither of the components by itself could sustain the concept of dance. In the Hindu tradition all arts lead the practitioner as well as the beholder towards moksha and so any physical movements without this particular motivating force would degenerate into futile exercises. Actually, to the Indian mind there is no movement without a motivating force. For us even the normal activities (kriyas) are endowed with some inner meaning and a motivating force. The content of dance, logically then, down the ages was religion and the various philosophical thoughts. Because one and all, those spiritual and intellectual beliefs of the people strived to take man nearer to the supreme and to ultimately merge with the Supreme and achieve moksha. Dance is the Supreme act of creation. It brings about a change in dancers personality and turns it to a higher personality. It is a cosmogenic function since it arouses dormant energies not only in the dancers but spectators also.