Thursday 6 April 2017

The Folk Dance of Dakshin Dinajpur



"Mokha" Dance is a very popular folk dance of  North Bengal, especially in Uttar Dinajpur and Dakshin Dinajpur districts.In this Dance style the dancers wearing  musk display the ultimate power of the goddess "Chandi" and perform  a drama where eventually the ruins of evils by the goddess of power, the Chandi are displayed efficiently. In these districts another dance named "Halua & Haluani", a Dance-cum-Drama where the typical lifestyle of the poor farmer families  of this region also beautifully presented before the audiences.

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