A Navaratri Special. Garba-Dandiya, flashback.
found it in 'The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India' by R.V. Russell, Vol. IV. 1916. [ at Project Gutenberg]
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Update 20/2/11
Can across a south Indian version of the stick and strings dance. This one is called Goph Guntan.
Gujarati girls doing figures with strings and sticks
found it in 'The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India' by R.V. Russell, Vol. IV. 1916. [ at Project Gutenberg]
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Update 20/2/11
Can across a south Indian version of the stick and strings dance. This one is called Goph Guntan.
Ah! So that's what the ribbons were doing in the dandiya song in Sikandar :-) They look like a Maypole, but I had no idea where it originated (although I did know that Dandiya Raas is a Gujurati thing, yes?)...
Hey Memsaab, yes it's a Gujurati thing but now popular almost all over India specially Maharashtra. It's a specially marked event in the social calender of colleges.
Garbha dance has a number of formats based on who performs it and how. I am not sure but the girls in this.
I will have to check Sikandar to see how they do it in that old film :)