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Kerala·festival · wildlife

A group of dancers dances to a folk song. People wearing the mask of Hindu mythological characters dance at the Pooram festival in Thrissur in Kerala. The tourists click their photographs.

festival · dance

A group of female folk dancers performs at the annual Lokotsava festival, organised by Janapada Loka in Karnataka. Janapada Loka celebrates many folk cultural events throughout the year.

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Central Young Mizo Association (YMA) perform a mass violin during Chapchar Kut 2015 in Mizoram. They are playing 'Blessed assurance Jesus is mine'.

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Indian singer Sushmita Das sings Oriya songs at Samarpan, a celebration of Golden Jubilee year of Jagannath temple in Delhi. Regular artist in the AIR, Cuttack and various TV channels.

music · festival

Oriya singer Sushmita Das sings song of Raja Festival at Samarpan, a celebration of Golden Jubilee year of Jagannath temple in Delhi. Regular artist in the AIR, Cuttack and various TV channels.

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'Uthichi Jhada', an Oriya song by Sushmita Das at Samarpan, a celebration of Golden Jubilee year of Jagannath temple in Delhi. Regular artist in the AIR, Cuttack and various TV channels.

dance · music

A group of South Indian dancers performs at the annual Lokotsava festival in Karnataka. Here, the dancers are dancing to the beat of a drum, forms a circle, steps are fastened according to the rhythm of the drum played.

dance · snow

Snow Lion dance (Senggey Garcham) during Singhey Khababs festival in Ladakh. Man wearing mask of old man keeps dancing with stick on his hand. After sometime, snow lions joins old man and they performs together.

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Odissi dance performance during Jagannath Mahotsav at Tyagaraj Nagar in New Delhi. The duo is dancing about lord Ram. Odissi, also known as Orissi, is one of the eight classical dance forms of India.

Karnataka·dance

A tribal group from Karnataka entertains performs at Janapada Loka, an open-air museum in Bangalore. Wearing white dhoti, Saffron kurta and using concave brass plates, the dancers are moving the steps according to the sound of the plates.

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An Indian classical dancer wonderfully performs Bharatnatyam dance during International Indian Classical Dance and Music festival 2017 at Subhadra auditorium, Jagannath Mandir and OACC in Thyagraj Nagar, New Delhi.

Haryana·dance

An entertaining performance of Paika Folk dance by a group of dancers during the 31st surajkund international craft mela in Faridabad, Haryana. Men wearing red scraft and tight dhotis come to the grounds to perform as warriors.

Haryana·dance · music

An Amazing Jhumar, a most prominent of folk dances of Jharkhand during 31st Surajkund craft mela in Faridabad, Haryana.

Haryana·dance

A group of dancers performs Paika dance during 31st Surajkund craft mela in Faridabad, Haryana. The dancers wear colorful costume with red scarf tied on their head.

dance · festival

A lion dance folklore performed at Lokotsava festival in Karnataka. A lion shaped mask is being worn as they dance along, while the other dancers form a circle, jumping to the beats of the drum.

Haryana·dance · festival

An entertaining Baredi dance by the group of male dancer during 31st Surajkund craft mela in Faridabad, Harayana.

Haryana·dance · ceremony

A group of male and female dancers performing Daangis hail during 31st Surajkund mela in Faridabad, Haryana.

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Rajasthan·dance

The Siddhi dance from Gujarat is not authentic and seems to have borrowed heavily from the Rajashtani (Rabari or Kalbelia or neither?) tradition. One can feel the African pulse in the Sudanese origins of the Sidhi dance.

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The Neemrana Music Foundation performs 'The Magic Flute' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during the celebration of 10th Anniversary Gala Show at Weightlifting Hall JN Stadium Complex, New Delhi.

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The Neemrana Music Foundation performs 'If I were King' by Adolphe Adam (an opera of 3 acts set in Goa in 1510) during the celebration of 10th Anniversary Gala Show at Weightlifting Hall JN Stadium Complex, New Delhi.

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The Neemrana Music Foundation celebrates a decade of opera in India in collaboration with the European Union. The event was held at Weightlifting Hall JN Stadium Complex, New Delhi.

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The Neemrana Music Foundation performs 'Romeo and Juliet' by Charles Gounod during the celebration of 10th Anniversary Gala Show at Weightlifting Hall JN Stadium Complex, New Delhi.