GARBA KEYNOTE BOOK 15th DEC 2015 pdf

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benefitsThe socialising and mingling nature of Garba andRaas dances are of great worth and value andtheir benefits cannot be overemphasised. Withina short time of attending the event, people willstart to connect with some and then assimilateand blend with many others pleasantly and easily.By the end of a Garba and Raas evening peoplewill have connected with many others. If the eventhas been well organised, they will have clickedsticks and engaged with everyone who takes theirplace on the whirling dancing circles . There israrely any other dance form that can lead one intomaking some connection or contact so quicklywith most everyone present.Garba and Raas dances are relatively easy to do.After just a short while, within 15 minutes or less,the basic steps can be easily picked up to allowyou to get into the rhythm and the flow. Enoughcan be learned in a short space of time to makesure that your dancing is not awkward orembarrassing, either to yourself or to others. 103Tuesday, 15 December 2015

With other dance forms it is not usually easy to achieve this level of mixing and mingling, even in a hall full of people known to each other. Here people will soon be dancing and connecting and clicking with each other. Here you will be, side by side and face to face, moving, flowing and dancing. fooling around. This form of dancing smoothly takes your mind off many troubles, and soon releases you from part of the toils, troubles and worries of day to day life. more to follow on benefits Devotion Socialising Circular Transcendence Music Dance Fashion Passion Exercise Mixed Sexes Romance Circular 104Tuesday, 15 December 2015

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fashionA dazzling display of gaudiness and glory,transcending any bling , anytime, anyplace, anywhereThose who are passionate about garba and thereare tens of millions of them, look foward for manyweeks and months, preparing and deciding ontheir adornments, eagerly anticipating the manynights of dancing and posing and prancing thatlie ahead.womenWomen generally wear heavily embroidered andembellished three piece outfits, consisting of aChaniya which is a long flowing skirt, a Choliwhich is a a tight midriff baring blouse and a aform of flowing scarf known as an Odhani ordupatta. The Chaniyas and Cholis have differingpatterns, with a wide range of motifs. Quite oftenthere will be vast numbers of small mirrors( known as abhla ) sewn into the garments whichreflect the colours all around and about them. 109Tuesday, 15 December 2015

The Chaniya is mostly embroidered and pleated,and is designed to allow freedom of movementand also to keep you cool. The Choli is cut to fittightly to the body and usually has short sleevesand a low neck and is often cropped to expose thenavel. Some modern Cholis will have cut outbacks and front openings.menMen also dress splendidly and colourfully. Theywear dhotis or a pyjama like garment which istight towards the ankles but flowy and billowyfrom the hips to the knees. They wear a tightfitting top known as a Kediyu which is widelyflared at the midriff and swings around as theydance. Some will wear colourful and extravagantturbans or other decorative caps, and sportmulticoloured scarves. The mens attire is alsoembroidered and embellished with patterns andsmall mirrors. 110Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Observing a garba happening, you are struck bythe rich colours and patterns, the glitz and therazzle of the clothing and are soon immersed inthe gloriousness of the decoration and thisembellishment upon embellishment, in a dazzlingdisplay of gaudiness and glory, transcending anybling anytime anyplace anywhere.The women adorn themselves with glitteringnecklaces and earrings with their arms coveredwith bangles of many colours and compositions.Many will sport a bindi on their forehead andsome will have ankle bracelets, which give offtinkling and jingling sounds as they dance andsway. Some few or more will have adornedthemselves heavily and completely and theystand out and shine, these are the garba queenswhose passion and devotion for the dance isapparent from the time and imagination takenover their adornment. Many others will adornthemselves colourfully but in simple and rusticways. 111Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Baubles, bangles and beads, in many shades andshapes and colours, glittering and sparklingfurther adorn the already kaleidoscopicgarments. Around the ground colourful umbrellaswill be waved and twirled as the dancers spin andflow in their dance. At certain events women willcarry a pot or a multitude of decorated pots ontheir heads and will dance in elegantdeportment. There is little problem of what shoesto wear, as when dancing, footwear is taken offfor reasons of cleanliness and safety and mostimportantly due to respect for the deities; thegarba floor being hallowed ground.odhaniA huge amount of good things can be writtenabout the odhani. It flows in breezes, it hides thecoy, it shapes the figure, it covers the bare, it canleap out and kiss, with a gentle glance, a wispystroke, a twisty tease, it can bind and tie, pull andcaress, float away and never be found, it wrapsaround you in comfort, waves around you incelebration, it is cheap and cheerful, graceful andextravagant, exotic and exciting 112Tuesday, 15 December 2015

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There is also the choice of wearing a traditionalPatola Saree, which is specially made in Patan inNorthern India. This garment is believed tobestow a spiritual essence arising from the time,care and devotion with which it is crafted. PatolaSarees are very expensive costing around tenthousand sterling pounds or a lot more.Some of the younger girls and boys will go thatmuch further and have temporary tattoos of iconsand elements of the dances and devotion, paintedon their bare arms, shoulders and backs, all this tostand out and increase their showing and theirallure and to provide further buzz to theirpersonality and adornment. 115Tuesday, 15 December 2015

With men and with women generally the moreelaborately they are dressed, the greater theirenthusiasm and passion for the dance anddevotion. The ideal dancing garments are thosewhich are alluring and flowing and allow freedomof movement, traditional garba attire mostly,though not always allows for this and the swirlingand swooshing of the garments adds furthermotion and movement to the dancing. The garbagarments rich and full of patterns, shapes, glitter,sparkle and shine, are like a flowing exhibition oftraditional and abstract art in motion anddevotion. The garments and adornments are verymuch a part of the rich heritage of these dancesand should be valued, and preserved, and overtime evolved and developed to make them fittingto blend with contemporary times. 116Tuesday, 15 December 2015

TO FOLLOW; Modern, Traditional Women Men Children Jewelry Range of Garba Jewelry Accessories Make up and beauty Hairstyles Shola Shringaar Different sized people Patan Patola 117Tuesday, 15 December 2015

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dance To dance is to be out of yourself, more beautiful, more powerful, this is glory on earth and it is yours for the takingDance is perhaps the most shining achievement ofevolution, whether divine or not. It is movementin dance that distinguishes us from many otherlife forms. Without dance we miss out on much ofthe ecstasy of our wonderful and remain bare ofthe exhilaration that dancing can awaken in ourbeingDance steps are created from mans basicmovements; the walk, run, jump, skip, slide, leap,turn and sway. Combinations of these havebecome traditional dance steps and have beenused for folk and ethnic dances, social, dancesand modern expressive dances. Dance is the bodymoving in rhythm usually, but not always, in timeto music or chanting. There are various definitionsof dance and these vary around the worldamongst different cultures. Dance takes variousshapes and forms ranging from simple and easysteps to intricate and complex performances 122Tuesday, 15 December 2015

There are many reasons why people danceranging from ceremonial rituals and socialbonding to romantic aspirations. When languagehad not yet developed humans communicatedwith each other through gesturesDance can assist in reaching a betterunderstanding of culture, our own as well as theculture of other people and such appreciationhelps to strengthen the spirit of harmony in amulticultural, a multiracial, a multi religioussociety.Dance, which displayed the body in public, wasone of the channels of communication used topass along important social skills from onegeneration to the next. Dance was also sociallysignificant since it enabled the poor to see therich as their equals and by dancing in a sociallyapproved ways with their peers, individualsproclaimed their allegiance to society as a whole.The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, toexhibit their finery and to meet their future wivesand husbands, peasants danced to makethemselves happy and to escape the routine oftheir life. 123Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Dance is probably the most personal of the arts inthat the feeling and emotions evoked by thedance are in the main experienced and felt by thedancer, it is the dancer who is mostly moved byher dance.The watchers look and see the effect of theemotions and the movement, but they cannotfully fathom the dance. A painter and his paintingare separate, once painted if the painter is notthere the painting still exists, with a poet, thepoem remains even if the poet does not, the samewith a sculptor and his sculpture. However withdance when the dancer goes, so does the dance,they are linked and depend on each other.As for experiencing and engaging in dance, thereare the performance dances, where professionalsor the accomplished perform and the rest watch.and and there are social dances that people dancethemselves in a non accomplished nonprofessional ways 124Tuesday, 15 December 2015

As for the performance dances, you have to learn and practice and work hard and long in most cases and this takes time, effort and dedication. After all you are performing for an audience so you have to be proficient. With social dances you do not need to work hard to learn them and can become good just by engaging now and then. Even if you are not very good it does not really matter in the main. It is not possible to say when dance became part of human culture, but dance is probably the most ancient of the arts and the oldest means of expression, reflecting the need of humans to express emotion and need, by using the most immediate instrument available, the body. Astronomical events made a deep impression on ancient man and movements of the heavenly bodies were imitated through circle dances and there are many and various rituals amongst the cultures of the world, present and past, where dance is an important element in the life and well being of the community, with love work and ritual all finding expression through dance. Many important events, such as births, marriages and death were celebrated and mourned with dancing and humans would dance for the heavens to send rain and would dance in bliss when these dancing prayers were answered. 125Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Dance has certainly been an important part ofceremony, rituals, celebrations and entertainmentsince the earliest human civilisations. Archeologydelivers traces of dance from the prehistoric erasuch as the 9,000 year old Rock Shelters ofBhimbetka paintings in India and Egyptian tombpaintings depicting dancing figures from c. 3300BC. One of the earliest structured uses of dancesmay have been in the performance and in thetelling of myths.Dance was also sometimes used to show feelingsfor one of the opposite gender. Before theproduction of written languages, dance was oneof the methods of passing stories down fromgeneration to generation. Another early use ofdance may have been as a precursor to ecstatictrance states in healing rituals. 126Tuesday, 15 December 2015

It is only since 1890 that it has been possible toportray dance in moving images on film. Formany thousands of years, dance could only bepreserved by words or paintings hence we onlyhave fleeting glimpses of the breadth and rangeof the dancing that enriched and enchanted manand womankind for eons. Sadly the vast majorityof the human experience of dance is lost to us.Sound recordings were first possible after 1877and so the songs, melodies and refrains thataccompanied dance have only been available forour enjoyment since the late 1800s’.In primitive and ancient times the naturalelements were given personalities, which were inturn abstracted as spirits and gods. By wearingmasks and moving in certain patterns, individualscould impersonate these deities. Sacred danceswere performed to influence the course of natureto bring rain, to facilitate a good harvest or ahunt, and to drive out evil. One of the mostimportant patterns was the circle dance. The circlestands for itself; it is closed to the surroundingworld and to spectators. The circle, or ring, dancewas seen as an earthly counterpart of theheavenly dance of the angels, 127Tuesday, 15 December 2015

In the western world, a few centuries before theChristian era artistic dancing remained a specialpreserve of technical groups of artists; dance asan art to be practiced and learnt. The majority ofpeople did not consider dance to be a respectableactivity to be performed in public and hencedancing was reserved for those who took the timeand trouble to become accomplished in the skillsof dance. In the middle ages Christianity wasopposed to dancing as it saw human goodnessonly in the soul and and the desires of the bodywere regarded as evil. Such views wereinfluenced by St Paul’s conception of the spirit asopposed to the senses and his contempt for thebody and its functions. For the Hindus however, ithad been a part of the scriptures and the worksflowing and following from them, as well asrituals and practices, which put dance at the veryheart and forefront of their heritage andspiritualityDance is a form of art which has a time structure,a maximum and minimum length, which are thesame. There is nothing to dictate how long youmust admire a painting, or a poem, or a sculpture,but with dance as also with music, the formrequires that a certain portion of your time betaken. 128Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Hence timing is important and the dance and themusic has to use that time well if it is too short itwill not have time to make much of an impression,if it is too long people may drift. Dance is an artwhich is more connected and to do with the bodythan any other art, painting, sculpture, music,writing. These other arts do involve the use ofsome small part of your body but dance claimsthe whole. As an art form dance reconnects youwith your body and limbs.As the dancer cannot overlook and properlyadmire his dance and the onlookers cannot be inand within the dance, to what extent can a danceperformance really be appreciated andunderstood? It seems as if this dichotomybetween the dance, the dancer and those beingdazzled by the dance, is destined to remain. Whatis important however is to understand that thisdistinction is there and your appreciation ofdance is mainly of a subjective nature. 129Tuesday, 15 December 2015

In many respects it is similar to religiousexperiences, and enlightenments, that those whohave felt and been moved by such phenomenahave difficulty in adequately getting across toanother the power and emotion of the happening.Of course all this also has a lot to do with the factthat often, the experiencer himself does not fullyfathom the precise nature of the mood andemotion that he has undergone and itsmotivation and purpose. It is therefore verydifficult to get across in words or other mediawhat you feel and experience when you dance.And so it should be, that is the essence of suchphenomena 130Tuesday, 15 December 2015

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stylesAs for dances done for social pleasure they are inthe main of momentary significance and some ofthem still require a lot of energy and effort.Rarely are there dances which can be done forsocial pleasure and also have significance andsome higher purpose. We need to appreciate thatthe best and most significant form of dance is notthat of the professionals. In the main you have tobe fairly knowledge about the professionaldances and hence the best and most significantand useful dances are communal dances. Theysoar and transcend far above professionalperformancesFolk dance is a participation dance, displaying thecharacteristics and temperament of the peoplewho create it. It is usually a dance of anonymousorigin that has been passed from generation togeneration. Most Indian dances have grown frompopular dances into art forms. 135Tuesday, 15 December 2015

The classical range is also immersed in culturaland dramatic works, in carefully contrivedsettings.These take time trouble and expense toarrange and organise. You cannot just startdancing. The onlookers, the audience also have tohave a certain degree of knowledge andunderstanding for them to appreciate and enjoythe performance. Accomplishment is thereforerequired for those watching. This naturallyrestricts the audience for a classical danceperformance. SImilar constraints apply toclassical music and other such arts. It is notsomething of the people, by the people and forthe people.There is not a lot that can be written on dance, asit a thing to be seen and experienced orperformed. However much can be written on thebenefits of dance and why people should dance.There are innumerable benefits in dance anddancing. Dance can make us fitter and healthier,mentally and physically. Dance can also increaseour social interaction and bonding with likeminded people. Dance is something that can bedone by all ages from infants to the elderly. 136Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Even the infirm can enjoy dance to some extent.Dance can be done as part of a group or evenalone. Dance can happen in a variety of placesand settings, and for different purposes andreasons.Apart from wars, dancing was the chief factormaking for social solidarity in primitive life andthere is every reason to suppose that is still thecase today. The value of dance as a method ofindividual and national education was recognisedas civilisation became increasingly self-conscious.In the Laws Plato remarked that a good educationincludes knowing how to dance and sing well.Dance is one of the most environmentally friendlyactivities, as it hardly uses up any of the preciousresources of our world. The energy used up indance comes from food we would usuallyconsume. Dance does not need lavish places orbuildings for it to happen and a simple musicplayer with speakers and and a small piece ofground or field is all that is needed. Greatdancing can take place using no more thaninstruments which were available a few thousandyears ago. Dance has fairly minimal requirementsin terms of equipment and resources. 137Tuesday, 15 December 2015

In this day and age more people are leadingphysically inactive lives and rates of obesity areon the increase and there is an urgent need toimprove the physical health of people. Dance canhave a profound effect on health and well being.In comparison to other repetitive forms of healthyexercise, it is far more pleasant to engage indance. It is therefore important that the benefitsof dance are available to as many people aspossible.For the individual depending on the nature of thechosen dances, there can be personal and mentalgrowth and a more fulfilled life. There is a chanceto form and sustain friendships and relationships,whether platonic or romantic. Dance being afusion of many forms of art, including music,literature and the visual arts, helps individuals togrow intellectually as well. Dance also exposespeople to more music and studies have identifiedthat good forms of music can improve our mentalwell being. Dance helps to improve rhythmic andcreative expression and enriches our imaginationand innovation. Dance has an impressive numberof styles and forms and themes and there issomething to suit most people. 138Tuesday, 15 December 2015

A community which blends and bonds better indance will also be more enriching and caring.Dance can assist in reaching a betterunderstanding of our culture, as well as theculture of other people and such appreciationhelps to strengthen the spirit of harmony in amulticultural, multiracial and multi religioussociety.It seems obvious, that there is little reason toavoid dance, and every reason to dance more. 139Tuesday, 15 December 2015

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healthThe New England Journal of Medicine reported in2003 on a 21 year study carried out by the AlbertEinstein College of Medicine New York, on theeffects of recreational activities on the elderly.The study examined cognitive activities such asreading books, writing, doing puzzles, playingcards and musical instruments. It also examinedphysical activities such as tennis, golf, swimming,bicycling, walking and doing housework.The study found that almost none of the physicalactivities appeared to offer any protectionagainst dementia. The only physical activitywhich did offer protection against dementia wasfrequent dancing.The study reported as follows;Reading - 35% reduced risk of dementiaBicycling and swimming - 0% 144Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Doing crossword puzzles at least four days a week- 47%Playing golf - 0%Dancing frequently - 76%.Dancing contained the greatest risk reduction ofany activity studied, cognitive or physical.It was believed that dancing had these benefits asdancing integrates several brain functions atonce. Dancing simultaneously involveskinesthetic, rational, musical and emotionalprocesses.Of course the kind of dancing you do does matter,and further research is needed on this. However itseems sensible to conclude that folk dances suchas garba and raas have many elements in themwhich make them suitable as dances forimproving mental and physical health. 145Tuesday, 15 December 2015

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