Kalbelia dance

About Kalbelia:

• Kalbelia dance is a folk dance of Rajasthan state, and is also known by other names like ‘Sapera Dance’ or ‘Snake Charmer Dance’.
• Kalbelia dance is performed by a Rajasthani tribe called ‘Kalbelia’.
• Rajasthan’s Kalbelia dance and songs have been included in UNESCO’s representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since the year 2010.
• The male participants play musical instruments, such as the pungi, a woodwind instrument traditionally played to capture snakes, the dufli, been, the khanjari - a percussion instrument, morchang, khuralio and the dholak to create the rhythm on which the dancers perform.
• The dancers are women in flowing black skirts who dance and swirl, replicating the movements of a serpent. The upper body cloth is called Angrakhi and a piece of cloth worn on head known as Odhani similarly the lower body cloth is called Lengha.
• There is no any organized training system or school, manuscripts, and written text to teach and learn Kalbelia songs and Kalbelia dance. This folk art is transmitted from generation to generation.

Prelims Question

Kalbelia” is a dance form from:
(a)Uttar Pradesh
(b)Assam
(c)Rajasthan
(d)Andhra Pradesh

Answer to the Prelims Question