Kalbelia Dance

The Kalbeliyas, is a snake-charmer community from Rajasthan which performs the Kalbeliya dance. They rely heavily on this dance performance for their living. The Kalbeliya women dancers wear long, black coloured, drindled-skirts heavily worked with embroidery and light-coloured thread along with small pieces of mirrors. This costume draws the attention in a somewhat strange way.

The Kalbelia Dance perform in the time of any big festival or any cultural dance programme in rajasthan India. Kalbelia Dance of rajasthan is a unique dance of kalbelias. Two or three women sings traditional rajasthani songs and others plays the musical instruments.

During Bhavai dance there are some of musical instruments play with folk music like pakhwaja, dholak, jhanjhar, sarangi, harmonium and plaintive notes of the ‘been’ which is the wooden instrument of the snake charmers. During the Kalbelia Dance of rajasthan we can see the flexibility of the dancers body.