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Madhya
Pradesh :
The Ghond, Bil, Baiga dances are now well-know in India. The dancers wearing traditional costumes and make-up perform these ritual dances. These dances are full of 'Veera rasa' or valour, and the movements are powerful and majestic. The background music contains songs full of love and fight. The Muria and Maria Adivasi tribes of Madhya Pradesh are described by the great anthropologist Verrier Elwin.
He lived with these people, adapted their living methods and social customs and wrote
many books on their general life and dances.
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These tribes possess
unique social habits and philosophy of their own and their dances
have their own purity, grace, gaiety and beauty. Their folk songs
are simple and straight forward. The men and women joining hands dance to the rhythm of the 'Dhol' in their own well-established patterns. The strict methods taught by their elders involving bends and turns are followed by their young men and women. There are no inhibitions or pressures or impediments in their dances. Also their daily life is full of natural love, song, joy and laughter.
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The
men of Maria tribes of Bastar wear bison horns on their heads and
dance in a circle to the playing of the centrally situated Dhol,
performing mock fights amongst themselves. But the women hold sticks
in their right hands and dance round the men folk, Such dances of
men and women are very attractive and pleasing to watch.
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