Which Indian classical dance form was featured in Michael Jackson's 1991 music video 'Black or White'?

The correct answer is Odissi. Michael Jackson's music video for the song "Black or White", released in 1991, featured dancers from many different cultures around the world, to express the song's message of racial harmony and unity. In one of its sequences, an Indian classical dancer performs Odissi, the classical dance of Odisha. The source book from which this question comes states that it was the only Indian dance form featured in the video.

Odissi is one of the oldest classical dance forms of India. Its roots go back to the temple dance traditions of Odisha, and the earliest evidence of dance in Odisha comes from the Udayagiri and Khandagiri caves near Bhubaneswar, dating from about the 1st century BCE, during the reign of King Kharavela. Over the centuries, the dance was performed by the maharis (women temple dancers) in the service of Lord Jagannath at Puri, and later by the gotipuas (young boys dressed as girls). In the 1950s and 1960s, the dance was revived and reconstructed by gurus such as Kelucharan Mohapatra, Pankaj Charan Das, Deba Prasad Das and Mayadhar Raut. Odissi is known for its two basic postures, the chauka (a square stance, representing Lord Jagannath) and the tribhanga (a graceful posture with three bends in the body), its sculptural poses, its fluid movements of the torso and its expressive abhinaya. It is often performed to the verses of the Gita Govinda of Jayadeva.

Famous Odissi dancers include Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra, Sanjukta Panigrahi, Sonal Mansingh, Kumkum Mohanty, Madhavi Mudgal, Protima Bedi and Sujata Mohapatra.

About the other options:

Kathak, Bharatanatyam and Kathakali are also major classical dance forms of India, but they were not the dance shown in this video.