{"id":30002,"date":"2025-02-09T09:26:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T03:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30002"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:29:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:59:59","slug":"dashavatar-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dashavatar-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Dashavatar Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dashavatar Theatre Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, Dashavatar theatre performances started in Maharashtra and North Goa region.<\/p>\n<h2>About Dashavatar Theatre<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a popular form of theatre with a <strong>history of 800 years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>traditional folk theater<\/strong> performed in <strong>Maharashtra and Northern Goa region.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Theme of Dashavatar Theatre :<\/strong> The stories presented in these shows are based on the <strong>10 incarnations of Vishnu<\/strong> namely Matsya, Koorma, Varaha, Narsimha, Wamana, Parashurama, Ram, Krishna, Buddha and Kalki.<\/li>\n<li>Every year, the Dashavatar season <strong>begins after the paddy harvest,<\/strong> towards the end of the Navratri fast in October, and continues until May the following year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Musical instruments used in Dashavatar Theatre:<\/strong> Paddle harmonium, Tabala and Zanj.<\/li>\n<li>The show is mostly <strong>musical and sometimes dialogues are used.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The origin of Marathi theatre can be traced to Dashavatara tradition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Dashavatar Theatre FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> What is Dashavatar theatre?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Dashavatara is part of the folk theater in Maharashtra.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong> Which theatre form is mainly based on the legends of Krishna?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Raasleela<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3: <\/strong>What is a folk theatre?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> It is a composite art form in India with a fusion of elements from music, dance, pantomime, versification, epic and ballad recitation, graphic and plastic arts, religion and festival peasantry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/dashavatar-performances-in-maharashtra-the-men-who-play-women-under-the-stars\/article69156314.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dashavatar Theatre is a popular form of theatre with a history of 800 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":86425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30002","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\/30002","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=30002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86427,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30002\/revisions\/86427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}