GARBO NEE DHOOM…!!!

After a long time awaiting people are now alert to dance in there form in different style. Carnival of style, dance, lighting many more with including FOLK music. Yes..!! I am talking about NAVRATRI-GARBA- DANDIA.

In different –different region people are playing different style of garba, in their, they called POPAT, HEECH, GHOMAR (it includes in Rajasthan form of dance also), garbi, 3 taali, Dodhiyu and others. Were I got offer to play garba in MULUND KALIDAS, or may last year experience in GHATKOPAR’s police ground’s got to know people are playing garba…???And they are so much into playing. Such a different styles them do.!  Sanedo is the most wanted song in the crowd. Kids dance on the songs like mumbai thi gadi aavi re. To begin with, they start with 3 taali and then at the last, all the fast songs are played. The traditional costumes the garba dancers wear is pink, yellow orange and such bright coloured of their dress.

In month of September NAVRATRI begins…it has Garba is an Indian form of dance that originated in the Gujarat region. The name is unoriginal from the Sanskrit term Garbha which mean"womb" and Deep. Many traditional garbas are performed around a central lit lamp or picture/statues of different avatars of Goddess DURGA Shakti. The circular and spiral figures of Garba have similarities to other spiritual dances. Traditionally it is performed during the nine-day Hindu festival Navratri means” nine nights”. Either the lamp (the Garba Deep) or an image of the Goddess Durga also called Amba.  During Navratri, Vadodara, the cultural capital of Gujarat is the best place to perform or witness Garba.

Modern garba is also heavily influenced by DANDIYA RASS (DANDIYA PERFORMED BY MEN and RASS PERFORMED BY WOMEN).  A dance traditionally performed by men. The union of these two dances has formed the high-energy dance that is seen today. Both men and women usually wear colourful costumes while performing garba and dandiya. The girls and the women wear Chaniya choli, a three-piece dress with a choli, which is an embroidered and colourful blouse, teamed with chaniya, which is the flared, skirt-like bottom, and dupatta, which is usually worn in the traditional Gujarati manner. Chaniya Cholis are decorated with beads, shells, mirrors, stars, and embroidery work, mati, etc.

Traditionally, women decorate themselves with jhumkas large traditional earrings, necklaces, bindi, bajubandh, chudas and kangans, kamarbandh, payal, and mojiris. Boys and men wear kafni pyjamas with a KEDIYU - a short round kurta - above the knees and pagadi on the head with bandhini dupatta, kada, and mojiris.

There is a huge interest in Garba among the youth of India and in particular, the Gujarati Diaspora. Garba and Dandiya Raas are also popular in the United States where more than 20 universities have Raas Garba competitions on a huge scale every year with professional choreography. Garba is also very popular in the United Kingdom where there are a number of Gujarati communities who hold their own garba nights. It is widely popular among the Gujarati community even in Canada. They says "Ae Hallo" for fun, which means "Come on! Let’s start.

 Here I would like to say- there no boundaries of dance, it can be perform in any way or any person and here we say the how communication reaches to community.