{"id":29902,"date":"2026-08-01T12:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29902"},"modified":"2026-08-01T13:42:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:12:48","slug":"dhimsa-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dhimsa-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhimsa Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Dhimsa Dance Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent performance of the traditional Dhimsa dance by more than 13,000 tribal women and girl students at the Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport in Bhogapuram was recognised by Guinness World Records as the \u201clargest Dhimsa dance\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Dhimsa Dance<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a popular<\/span><b> tribal dance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> performed by tribes, including <\/span><b>Bagata, Valmiki, Poraja, Khond, Gadaba, Kondadora, Mukadora, and Kotia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in<\/span><b> Andhra Pradesh .<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is performed during<\/span><b> festivals, weddings, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and at the time of the <\/span><b>\u201chunting festival\u201d i<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">n April when men and women dance for hours together.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are <\/span><b>12 varietie<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s of Dhimsa and the <\/span><b>origin <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can be traced to the <\/span><b>Koraput area<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>home of the Ghond Tribe.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Performance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Typically performed by a<\/span><b> group of 15 to 20 women <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dressed in traditional, <\/span><b>colorful ethnic sarees<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>ornaments<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the dancers<\/span><b> move in synchronous circles to the rhythm of native instruments <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">played by male community members.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The beauty of this dance <\/span><b>centres on the movements of the dancers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> without much emphasis on expression or literary texts.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>feet and the hand movements dominate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the dance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is accompanied by <\/span><b>wind and percussion instruments<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; the dance changes with the music.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unique tribal musical instruments accompanying this dance form include the <\/span><b>Mori (a wind instrument), Thudum (drum), and Dappu.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Themes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Various themes of the Dhimsa, are woven around their <\/span><b>mythologies, folktales, ethos<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, mores, economic activities, and <\/span><b>kinship <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and marital life, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>News: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/andhra-pradesh\/largest-dhimsa-dance-recognised-by-guinness-world-records\/article71291286.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/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, and Kotia in Andhra Pradesh. 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