Encompassing the spirit of the
Thar Desert, Rajasthan has been a haven of various folk art
forms. A medieval history of princely states, provided patronage
to these art forms and their artists. Vibrant, vigorous and
graceful, the dances of Rajasthan evoke the desert in all
its moods.
It is the most lilting tribute
to the spectacular beauty, the undulating sinuousness and
the brutal harshness of the landscape, and to the hardiness
and heroism of the people who live in this Land of the Kings.
The dances, found in limitless variations in Rajasthan, punctuate
its barrenness, turning the land into a fertile basin of color
and creativity and are an expression of human emotion as much
as the folk music.
Rajasthan's popular dances include:
BHAVAI, KACHHI GHODI, GAIR KATHPUTLI, SAPERA/KALBELIA DANCE,
CHARI DANCE, GHOOMAR DANCE, CHAKRI DANCE, MAYUR DANCE, TERAH
TAALI DANCE, GER DANCE, GARASIA
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