(in Indian dance and other performing arts) the emotion or mood conveyed by a performer.
巴瓦（印度舞和其他表演艺术中表演者所传达的表情或情感）
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Coming from a family of traditional painters, he was able to evoke bhava within a visual medium.
Dance became a passion in the sense of understanding bhava and arriving at the essence of what you're saying.
Knowing musical nuances influences my depiction of "bhava" as a dancer.
I can become ecstatic, dance and roll and shed tears and be overwhelmed with that bhava, drowned and intoxicated.
In each chapter, the novelist creates the correct mood of the corresponding bhava.
Dancing is the combination of physical exercise, mudras, bhava, body stretching, meditation and health awareness.
While the nritta forms the pure dance steps, abhinaya is where the dancer expresses and experiences the various feelings or bhavas.
The theory posits that any one of the eight permanent bhava will prevail in a particular composition.
There were questions whether bhava was in any way related to choreography.
Classical dance forms depend more on narration, which need bhava.
For, once the meaning is understood, it becomes that much more easy to render the krithis with the correct 'bhava'.
What fills your soul, then, is shaantam - the last of the nine bhavas.
In an emotion-filled delivery, she recreates all the "rasas" and "bhavas".
She tries to explain the difference between abhinaya and bhava and rasa in the present volume.
In other words, where there is bhava, there is birth.
The Navarasa number was, for instance, superb in that it gave them a wonderful opportunity to use their countenance dexterously to convey the nine bhavas or rasas.
The flow between his movements was so smooth, like an unbroken chain, that the flow of bhava was also unbroken.
There was not much scope for bhava in productions like "Bhukamp" or "Sarpagati".
Shree is a difficult raga, she points out, adding that it suits a difficult bhava.
The theory posits that the bhavas are dormant in humans.
Origin
Hindi bhāv 'emotion, feeling', from Sanskrit bhāvā 'manner of acting, behaviour'.