{"id":29902,"date":"2025-02-05T05:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T00:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29902"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:16:56","slug":"dhimsa-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dhimsa-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhimsa Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dhimsa Dance Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, tribal families from Neelabandha, a hillptop hamlet in Anakapalli district of Andhra Pradesh received electricity for the first time after Independence and performed \u2018Dhimsa\u2019 in excitement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Dhimsa Dance<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>popular tribal dance<\/strong> performed by tribes, including Bagata, Valmiki, Poraja, Khond, Gadaba, Kondadora, Mukadora, Kotia <strong>in Andhra Pradesh .<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is performed during festivals, weddings and at the time of the &#8220;hunting festival&#8221; in April when men and women dance for hours together.<\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>12 varieties<\/strong> of Dhimsa and Origin can be traced to the Koraput Area the home to Ghond Tribe.<\/li>\n<li>It is accompanied by <strong>wind and percussion instruments,<\/strong> the dance changes by the music, and a troupe comprises 20.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Themes of Dhimsa dance:<\/strong> Various themes of the Dimsa, are woven around their <strong>mythologies, folktales, ethos, mores, economic activities<\/strong> and their kinship and marital life etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Instruments used:<\/strong> Musical instruments like <strong>dappu, tudumu, mori, kidgi, gilka<\/strong>, and jodukommulu are used.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Performance of Dhimsa Dance:<\/strong> Dhimsa dance is done in a circle with each other\u2019s arms closed at each other\u2019s back. This dance is mainly a movement of hands and legs. Dancers form small or big circles and perform together as a team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Dhimsa Dance FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> What is the famous dance of Andhra?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>: Kuchipudi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2: <\/strong>What is the name of Araku dance?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>: Dhimsa<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong> What is the meaning of Dhimsa?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>: Dhimsa means &#8220;sound of the foot steps\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Visakhapatnam\/tribal-families-in-neelabandha-hamlet-of-anakapalli-district-celebrate-first-time-electricity-with-dhimsa-dance\/article69176612.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhimsa Dance is a popular tribal dance performed by tribes, including Bagata, Valmiki, Poraja, Khond, Gadaba, Kondadora, Mukadora, Kotia  in Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}