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Kalbelia Dance
Content Provider | Internet Archive: Cultural Resources of India |
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Spatial Coverage | 2004-09-08 |
Description | Kalbelias are a part of larger group known as “Jogi” comprising mostly of nomad people. After India’s independence they settled in villages and in the periphery of towns. Jogis provide technical services to village people. Kalbelia Jogis use to make very sophisticated part of pitloom i.e. cloth-weaving traditional set-up. Kalbelia are also know as snake charmers. They play ground-pipe and it is believed that snake gets charmed by its mellow sound. They are mainly worshippers of snake and they take it to families for invocation. Their bamboo snake box is actually a mobile temple with live snake. People offer money to snake. Kalbelia families also move in villages and use to sing and dance before the family group. They dance to the tune of Pungi- an aerophonic instrument having two tunes-one for the notes and the other for the drone. A female singer sings traditional songs and play the hand drum - ‘Dafliʼ. |
Access Restriction | Open |
Rights License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
Subject Keyword | Folk Dance |
Content Type | Video |