The Dance activities and
manners in both man and women are peculiar in the District. There are lots of changes comes in it.
Man dances usually in happiness such as Marriage ceremony, they used there hands and head spicily in dance.
while womens method of using there hands and butt is really attractive in Bundeli dance.One can see women Dance during marriage ceremony and other occasion.
During Dance, Music and songs people used thease instruments like the dholak (in diwari), nagada, Majeera, Harmonium and pakhawaj, tambura, wind instruments like the flute and shennai and several other rare instruments like the algoja, .
Diwari
Diwari dance in Hamirpur is performed every year during the festival of light called Deepawali in the end of October or November. Diwari dances are performed by acrobatic male groups dressed in colourful and unusual attire.
In this connection the epic story goes that "in Gokul” when Lord Krishna raised Goverdhan Parvat on his finger to save the local people, they danced in joy. The dancers wear multi-coloured apparels and the chief dancer holds the peacock feathers in his hands and the rest stick those feathers in their half pants.
The main instruments used in this dance are ‘Dholak’ and ‘Nagada’. The male dancers with long sticks show the marshal arts when the beats of drums inspire their energy and emotions. This dance is also performed as a ‘thanks giving’ after harvesting.
Ravela
Ravala dance in Hamirpur is basically called a dance drama. The farm labour community of Hamirpur performs Ravala during marriages. It is performed with very funny expressions and humorous dialogues. The audiences are entertained by these expressions of dance and the dialogues of drama.
Badhaiya
BadhaiyaThis is a ceremonial dance. It is performed on child birth and marriages to celebrate happiness and joy. The collective moments of dancers show the unique expressions of their faces. With rhythm and movements they greet for the occasion.
Raai
Through the centuries Raai has been the folk dance which has touched its peak as a classical dance.Rai dance is performed by women dancers as well as men during Dashera. Later Raai had degenerated its aesthetical value and lost its classical expression. Today it remains simply as a folk dance. Raai means a mustard seed. When a mustard seed is thrown into a saucer, the seed starts to swings around. This way mustard seed moves in the saucer, the dancers also swings and when the singers sing the lyrics of the song the dancers follow the beats with foot steps. It is a duet and the competition is between the beats of the drum and foot steps of the dancer. The drummer and the dancer try to win each other and this competition leads towards the bliss.
Dil-Dil Ghodi
Befor the past some years It was a ceremonial dance performed during the marriage ceremony for the entertaining "Baratis"by a person packed in a horshe shaped attire.Currently it changes it form. A trained horse with the loud beats of heave drums called Rabbi. With graceful movements, the horse follows beats of the drum with its four steps and the horse rider performs the gymnastics gestures. Typically horse dance follows the ceremonial marriage processions.
DJ Dance
Man dances usually in happiness such as Marriage ceremony, they used there hands and head spicily in dance.
while womens method of using there hands and butt is really attractive in Bundeli dance.One can see women Dance during marriage ceremony and other occasion.
During Dance, Music and songs people used thease instruments like the dholak (in diwari), nagada, Majeera, Harmonium and pakhawaj, tambura, wind instruments like the flute and shennai and several other rare instruments like the algoja, .
Diwari
Diwari dance in Hamirpur is performed every year during the festival of light called Deepawali in the end of October or November. Diwari dances are performed by acrobatic male groups dressed in colourful and unusual attire.
In this connection the epic story goes that "in Gokul” when Lord Krishna raised Goverdhan Parvat on his finger to save the local people, they danced in joy. The dancers wear multi-coloured apparels and the chief dancer holds the peacock feathers in his hands and the rest stick those feathers in their half pants.
The main instruments used in this dance are ‘Dholak’ and ‘Nagada’. The male dancers with long sticks show the marshal arts when the beats of drums inspire their energy and emotions. This dance is also performed as a ‘thanks giving’ after harvesting.
Ravela
Ravala dance in Hamirpur is basically called a dance drama. The farm labour community of Hamirpur performs Ravala during marriages. It is performed with very funny expressions and humorous dialogues. The audiences are entertained by these expressions of dance and the dialogues of drama.
Badhaiya
BadhaiyaThis is a ceremonial dance. It is performed on child birth and marriages to celebrate happiness and joy. The collective moments of dancers show the unique expressions of their faces. With rhythm and movements they greet for the occasion.
Raai
Through the centuries Raai has been the folk dance which has touched its peak as a classical dance.Rai dance is performed by women dancers as well as men during Dashera. Later Raai had degenerated its aesthetical value and lost its classical expression. Today it remains simply as a folk dance. Raai means a mustard seed. When a mustard seed is thrown into a saucer, the seed starts to swings around. This way mustard seed moves in the saucer, the dancers also swings and when the singers sing the lyrics of the song the dancers follow the beats with foot steps. It is a duet and the competition is between the beats of the drum and foot steps of the dancer. The drummer and the dancer try to win each other and this competition leads towards the bliss.
Dil-Dil Ghodi
Befor the past some years It was a ceremonial dance performed during the marriage ceremony for the entertaining "Baratis"by a person packed in a horshe shaped attire.Currently it changes it form. A trained horse with the loud beats of heave drums called Rabbi. With graceful movements, the horse follows beats of the drum with its four steps and the horse rider performs the gymnastics gestures. Typically horse dance follows the ceremonial marriage processions.
DJ Dance
New youngsters likes to dance in ear touching sound of Dj. Jagatraj and Dj vicky are very popular in Dj mixing.
