Folk Dance. Gujarati Garba
Dance.
In the field of Folk Dance popularity, the Garba
dance from Gujarat may perhaps top the list.
Garba is the dance form popular at festival Nav-Ratra. It is a simple,
joyful dance, based on a circular pattern and characterized by a sweeping
action from side to side accompanied by hand clapping.
At the Dashahara festival, around September, after the monsoon rains, girls carrying
pitchers go from house to house and dance around the Garabi,that is the
Dance-Pandol decorated pots containing offerings are hung in the doorways.
Later they celebrate by dancing around portrait of the goddess of plenty and
prosperity, Mataji Ambaji. The Garaba dances are also performed at the Holi
spring festival, when many activities centre on the Krishna legends. Folk
dances similar to the Garaba are performed in other parts of India, especially
Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan.
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