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Context:
Artists from Rajasthan perform ‘Kalbelia’ dance during the National Folk and Tribal Art Festival in Bhopal.
Key details:
- Kalbelia dance is a folk dance of Rajasthan.
- It is well known by other names like ‘Sapera Dance’ or ‘Snake Charmer Dance’.
- Kalbelia dance is particularly performed by a Rajasthani tribe called ‘Kalbelia’.
- Rajasthan’s Kalbelia dance and songs are now in UNESCO’s representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity from the year 2010.
- In Kalbelia dance, males play various traditional instruments and females perform the dance.
Kalbelia Dance Elements
- Kalbelia dance has a traditional musical instrument which is Poongi also called Been.
- Poongi is a kind of woodwind musical instrument used by Kalbelia tribe during catching snakes.
- Other traditional musical instruments used by Kalbelia tribe in Kalbelia dance are Dufli, Morchang, Dholak, Khanjari, and Khuralio.
Costume:
- On the upper body, the female Kalbelia dancers wear Angrakhi.
- On the head, the female Kalbelia dancers wear Odhani.
- They wear a long skirt called Lehenga or Ghagra.
- This complete dress is essentially black in color with the red decorative laces.
Kalbelia tribe
- The Kalbelia are a snake charming tribe from the Thar Desert in Rajasthan.
- The dance is an integral part of their culture and performed by men and women.
- Kalbelias are followers of Sage Kanifnath.
- They are also called Sapera and Jogira, Gattiwala and Poogiwara.
- They live a nomadic life and belong to the scheduled tribes.
SOURCE: THE HINDU, THE ECONOMIC TIMES, PIB
