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KHORIA DANCE FORM OF HARYANA. Khoria Dance: This dance is a collective form of variety of the Jhumar dance style & steps. Women perform this dance exclusively. It is popular in the central region of Haryana, and is connected with the daily affairs of the people and with the most important events like the harvest, agricultural work, etc. In the actual performance, women & girls while singing a folk song enter in the dancing place and make a circular order. The simple movements acquire form and color with the swirling. For dance, performers wear full gold-work skirts and colored chundries and the gleam and jingle of heavy rustic jewelry. The graceful steps give place to a faster tempo. Until, two or three pairs of the girls break from the ring into the center with crossed arms joined together, swirling on the axis of their feet, while the girls in the ring clap to the beat of the drum. In final stage, the dance is performed mainly around the circumference. The Khoria dance is also performed on occasion of marriage. This is usually performed during the long wait for the bridegroom to bring his new bride home. During this theme of dance, the women mime the entire wedding ceremony, in the performance. By this dance, the women prey for the safety about return of the marriage party along with the newly wed couple. By staying awake whole night for dancing, they also protect their house, as the men folk are all away to the bride`s house. Due to the bawdy nature of this dance small children are kept away. Khoria dance sometimes taken as a game, when women of groom side waiting for newly bride to come and welcome her. Meanwhile they perform some funny dress art and perform some random act to entertain those ladies who’s curiously waiting for newly Bride. Sometimes these ladies dressed like a guy and perform all the acts being in that style only. Obviously gents are not allowed during that time, if they find anybody to watch them, then they make fun of him in a very humorous way. #culture #traditions #indiancultures #indianart #incredibleindia #haryana #haryanafolk #khoriadance #haryanaculture #connecttotheroots #backtothebasics #culturalrevival #unesco #unicef #un (at Faridabad) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAmc2i7JRuD/?igshid=shswercmxo1z