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Abstract:.Bharatnatyam is an ancient dance form practiced in India till today.The dancers are trained in such a way that they have to maintain certain postures for longer period of time eg "Arimandi"in this posture the person has to do half squat and in order to keep the upper body upright the individual has to go in lumbar lordosis, over the time the posture of bharatnatyam dancers has seen to have increased lumbar lordosis.This increased lumbar lordosis in normal individuals may lead to hampering of the dynamic balance .Hence this study was done to find out wheatherprofessional bharatnatyam dancers having increased lumbar lordosis have impaired dynamic balance too.So this study aims at finding correlation between lumbar lordosis and dynamic balance . Method -A correlational study was done in which 80 professional women bharatnatyam dancers were taken with age group of 18-30 years,having 3 or more years of experience in and around PCMC area Pune using purposive sampling as per inclusion criteria. Dancers with recent lower limb injuries were excluded. Concent was taken from the participants.Frst the lumbar lordosis was measured using pelvic inclinometer and later the star excursion test was performed to find out the dynamic balance of the participants.Later on data was collected , statistical analysis was done and results were tabulated. Conclusion -This study concludes that their is no correlation between the dynamic balance and pelvic inclination (increased)) in female bharatnatyam dancers.