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Chhattisgarh is a reservoir of talent. Since ages, dance and performing arts have been practiced here. Where Raut Nacha is the folk dance of cowherds, Panthi ‘Karma' and Soowa dance forms are popular all over the state.
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Local dances and dramas, for example, Pandavani, Panthi Dance, Nacha, Gond, and Muria are performed at the state fairs and festivals. Pandavani is an ancient style of story telling; actually it's a musical narration of the epic - Mahabharata.
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Soowa or Suwa tribal dance in Chhattisgarh is also known as Parrot Dance. It is a symbolic form of dancing related to worship. Dancers keep a parrot in a bamboo-pot and form a circle around it. Then performers sing and dance, moving around it with clapping. This is one of the main dance form of tribal women of Chhattisgarh.
Pandavani is a folk ballad form performed predominantly in Chhattisgarh. It depicts the story of the Pandavas, the leading characters in the epic Mahabharata. The artists in the Pandavani narration consist of a lead artist and some supporting singers and musicians. There are two styles of narration in Pandavani, Vedamati and Kapalik. In the Vedamati style the lead artist narrates in a simple manner by sitting on the floor throughout the performance. The Kaplik style is livelier, where the narrator actually enacts the scenes and characters
