- @Amrapali #txt-anno http://www.natfom.org/?page_id=370 {u'ranges': [{u'start': u'/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/p[50]/strong[1]/em[1]/span[1]', u'end': u'/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/ol[1]/li[3]/span[1]', u'startOffset': 0, u'endOffset': 178}], u'quote': u'Dandar Dance\nDandar Dance is none of the prominent dances of the Kolam tribe. This traditional dance is performed to solute or pray to the new grain. The word salute is popularly known in Kolami dialect as \u2018Munjra Karne\u2019. It symbolizes\xa0 productive magic, procedures, and connotes the welcoming of new grains at the end of an agricultural activity. On Diwali festival dance is performed by men, who dress like women and wander from village to village performing this dance. They receive gifts in kind and cash from spectations. To begin with, the dance group first perform \u2018Puja\u2019 (ritual) at the village head\u2019s house. The Kolam village head is popularly called as \u2018Karbhari\u2019 or \u201cGhatya\u201d. It is a custom to perform the dance at the house of the karbhari first, before it is performed at any body else\u2019s house. After the dancers finish with the village head\u2019s house they move to other houses. The head usually gives them more cash or grains. Money or grains collected as gifts is shared by the dancers. Sometimes they also arrange a feast for themselves. Movements of Dandar dance very much resembles with Ras dance of Gujaratis. Use of sticks, have resemblance with another several forms of dandar dance as follows.\n1.\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Ghorpad Kola Dance: \u2018Ghorpad\u2019 is reptile called as monitor. The tribals eat meat of this animal and use it as medicine as well. Fat from the reptile is used as an external ointment for joint pains and arthritis. Thus, monitor has nutritional and medicinal value for the tribals. Monitor is hunted by either a family or a group of 10-15 men from the village. They later feast upon the marry. Now, the Ghorpad Kola dance is a symbolic expression of this massive hunt and the joy celebrated over killing it. In this form of dance a man imitates crawling of a monitor on the ground. He is surrounded by a number of dancers with sticks in their hands. The dancers move in an anti-clock fashion around the main dancer, imitating a monitar. While this is going on the drummers play on drums. Some dancers play cymbals (zanj) while a few play shenai (a wind musical instrument). This dance is performed only by the men, as in real life also, hunting is their preserve. Only three musical instruments are played by Kolam musicians, during the dance is performance. Out of these, the shenai, which is made up of bamboo and wood is almost becoming a rare item. Overall, this dance form is dying as it is rarely performed. Younger generation of the Kolam tribe is getting attracted to new modern dances who prefer to dance on film songs.\n2.\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Lahan Dandar: This danceis performed by the men. As the name \u201cLahan\u201d suggests, circles in the dance are smaller, with few dancers only. This dance is performed during winter festivals.\n3.\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Motha Dandar: As the name suggests, this dance is performed in large circle, more number of participants and the greater amount of space used for dancing. Motha means big.', u'permissions': {u'admin': [], u'read': [], u'update': [], u'delete': []}, u'text': u'Dandar Dance Maharashtra ', u'tags': u'["Folk-dances-of-india","Maharashtra","Dandar-Dance","Kolam","tribe"]'} created: Mon, 04 May 2015, 01:47 PM UTC