Dhalo Dance

Dhalo Dance

Dhalo Dance is one of the most popular dances, Dhalo is performed by women on the moonlit night on 'Pausha' month. Compared to Fugdi dance,this dance is slow. The songs are in Kokani and Marathi. Normally 12-24 women assemble after the dinner at a pre-selected specific spot ('Mand') in the courtyard of a house in the village.
They arrange themselves in 2 parallel rows of 12, facing each other, and in a tribal fashion form a close knit by linking themselves arm-around, the back arrangement, singing in unison. The songs cover religious and social themes. The dance goes on every night for a week. On the concluding day, women sport all sorts of fency dresses and caricature man.