- @Amrapali #img-anno http://www.kashmirtravelport.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Kahmiri-dance.jpg {u'shapes': [{u'geometry': {u'y': 0.08368200836820083, u'x': 0.9233128834355828, u'width': 0.018404907975460127, u'height': 0.06694560669456068}, u'type': u'rect'}], u'src': u'http://www.kashmirtravelport.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Kahmiri-dance.jpg', u'context': u'http://testapp.swtr.us/?code=W7OBjacB7QbR5C47QNcpjLOTVC9ehk', u'comment': u'ROUF DANCE - Kashmir - iNDIA\n - Ruff is the most popular dance in the Kashmir Valley and is performed by the women folk. This dance is performed during harvesting season but the most essential occasion is the month of Ramzan when every street and corner in Kashmir resounds with the Ruff songs and dance. It is in Thanna and Budhal that the Folk players or Panthers are popular. The notable dance is the Rouf, which is performed by women on the occasion of Idd. Popular songs are Chhakri and Hafiz Naghma. The most popular instrument of Kashmiri action song is Tumbak Nari. This Rouf dance involves easy movements. It is considered both as an artistic and visual treat.By this dance form the Kashmiri women depicts the lovemaking of the bees that can clearly be seen when it is portrayed. In this dance Rouf, two or four clusters are created and each group consists of two to three charming and beautiful women. These women performers stand in a line of two rows by facing each other. Also they hold the hand of their adjacent partner. Thereafter the dance is performed as women bend their feet frontward and then to back. During the performance the song that is sung is in the type of answer and question. Additionally rouf is carried out by women in such form where one cluster puts up question and the other react to it in a musical way.'} created: Mon, 15 Sep 2014, 06:58 PM UTC