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dance · school

Kelucharan Mahapatra trains his woman dance students in Odissi dance, teaching at his Odissi dance school. He says that art never dies. He plays the Pakhawaj drum as his girl student dances in front of him.

Aizawl, Mizoram·dance · festival

Cultural dance Khual Lam from Mizoram, danced with accompaniments of bamboo sticks, with influences of the famous bamboo dance, at Chapchar Kut, the spring festival of Mizoram, in Aizawl.

Himachal Pradesh·snow · hills

A winter festival takes place on an open frozen snow field in Spiti in the Himachal Pradesh mountains of India. Snow sculptures abound and people sit on the ground and on blocks of ice.

festival · dance

A generic Indian Classical dance performance at a Nokia music New Year Celebration, circa 2007. Much beat and melody with a major watering down of the classical element of the various dances, into one melange.

Maharashtra·dance · festival

A range of multi-hued dresses at bhangra and new age fusion khichri dance performances at a new year celebration at the Nokia Music New Year Celebration Dance performances before the New Year countdown begins, circa 2007.

dance · festival

The Manipuris are traditionally nature and ancestor worshippers. The festival is celebrated to please the forest gods and roughly translates as 'Merry making of the gods'.

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Maibi Chakoi Manipuri priestess dance: invoking the deities of water! Artistic expression of the levelling of earth and heaven.

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Indian Classical Dance performance - Guess the dance type, wildfilmsindia viewers!

dance · festival

Dance from Sikkim. Sikkimese dance at North East Festival 2021, inspired by the Nepalese community in Sikkim Sikkimese loknritya / dance at North East Festival 2021, inspired by the Nepalese community in Sikkim Ghato nritya Sikkimese dance…

dance · music

Oyale is a Lotha Naga traditional song and part of a tribal dance by Naga women from Nagaland, a post harvest song and dance at North East Festival 2021 Oyale is a Lotha Naga tribal dance from Nagaland, a post harvest song and dance at Nort…

dance · festival

Mizoram folk dance at North-eastern Festival at Delhi Gymkhana Club in New Delhi. We are told that the Cheraw dance dates to the First century AD, while the Mizos were still in a Chinese province.

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Shiamak Davar Dance Academy kids performing at an event, with much Bollywood-esque energy and elan, and even the customary pelvic thrusts and suggestive moves thrown in. Shiamak Davar Dance Academy kids performing at an event

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A Hindi film sequence as if it were from a period film. The male dancer has ghungroos or bells on his ankles and feet, for the sake of rhythm. Wajid Ali dance sequence, Bollywood-esque with smoke and dreamy lighting ghungroo rhythm

dance · festival

Dance performance at Nokia music New Year Celebration.

Madhya Pradesh·dance · festival

A young girl delivers a graceful Bharatanatyam performance at the Khajuraho Dance Festival 2020 in India, one of the country’s most prestigious classical dance festivals.

Rajasthan·dance · festival

This video captures a beautiful moment from the Sankalp Ranji Pushkar Classical Dance Festival 2019, where classical Indian art and architecture come together in perfect harmony.

dance · festival

An Indian belly dancer captivates the audience during the Delhi Summer Festival at Dilli Haat Janakpuri, organised by Delhi Tourism.

dance · old town

This old footage beautifully captures a classical performance of Mohiniyattam, one of the most graceful solo dance traditions from Kerala.

dance · old town

In this archival footage, women and girls perform the vibrant Giddha, a traditional dance of Punjab. Derived from ancient ring dances, the performers form a circle while clapping rhythmically and raising their hands to shoulder level.

dance · old town

This archival footage shows legendary Odissi maestro Kelucharan Mohapatra performing the classical Odissi on stage.

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A group of women perform the graceful Ghoomar, a traditional folk dance of Rajasthan, while a man plays the energetic Dhol.

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Archival footage shows dancers performing at an event organised by the Shiamak Davar Dance Company. The performers execute choreographed routines characteristic of contemporary and Bollywood dance styles taught by the academy.

music · dance

Indialogue Foundation (along with Select City Walk, Turkish Airlines and the Embassy of Turkey in India) presented in New Delhi the most amazing Turkish Fest in India: Turkish Fest 2012 New Delhi.