User:MANOJ KUNKOLIKAR

DHALO Most popular and rich in tradition rural dance, performed in the most pure place of the village called 'Maand'. Dhalo is performed by women folk on the moonlit night of Hindu 'Pausha' month. This dance is performed during the week-long festivities are held at night time and the main deities propitiated on the occasion are Mother Earth and Sylvan deity, who are supposed to protect their house-holds. Compared to Fugdi dance, this dance is slow. The songs are in Konkani and Marathi. Village Womens assemble at a Maand,power house of a positive vibrations. Womens stands in 2 parallel rows of 12 or more, facing each other, and in a tribal fashion form a link within themselves with an arm-around-the-back and arrange themeselves in a dance position, singing in jointly folk songs. Normally, two rows of women confront each other by moving forward and backward while singing the stories of their life and the contemporary society. The songs cover religious and social themes. The dance goes on every night for a week. On the concluding day, womens organises sports & all sorts of fancy dresses and even caricature menfolk. Dhalo is a ritual practice & its Goan Tradition,symbolises cultural beauty of GOA.