- @Amrapali #txt-anno http://kalaacademygoa.org/folk-dance/ {u'ranges': [{u'start': u'/div[1]/section[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/article[28]', u'end': u'/div[1]/section[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/article[28]', u'startOffset': 9, u'endOffset': 619}], u'quote': u'Shigmo Utsav is a spring festival celebrated for a fortnight in Falgoon month, which abounds in folk forms.\n\u2022\tFarmers gather in a courtyard of the village deity and perform the dance Talgadi. \n\u2022\tTalgadi is a dance expression of pure pattern of human movement, energy and pure joy and is therefore a clear folk expression.\n\u2022\tThe dancers wear typical flowers and colourful costumes and dance to the beats of folk percussion instruments like Ghumat, Shamel, Zanj etc.\n\u2022\tThe dancers move around the village giving performances in the courtyard of every house which are witnessed by a large number of village folk.', u'permissions': {u'read': [], u'admin': [], u'update': [], u'delete': []}, u'text': u'Good information about Talgadi folk dance', u'tags': [u'Goa', u'Shigmo-festival', u'Talgadi-folk-dance', u'harvest-festival']} created: Tue, 10 Feb 2015, 10:42 AM UTC