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Rabindra Mandap, Unit IV, Bhubaneswar, KHORDHA ,ODISHA - 751003
About type of art
Mayura Dance is practiced by the Kondh tribe of Andhra Pradesh during marriages and festivals. Only male members of the community perform this dance. In this performance, the dancers add acrobatics to the complexity of the presentation. The dancers perform the footwork, rhythmically to music, while balancing a series of pots on their heads, and then add burning Diya(lamp) in both hands, as the show goes on. Some artists dip their foot on a wet ink pad, and then dance rhythmically on a blank white piece of paper, thus painting it alternatively, the troupe places coloured rice powder on the floor and on top of the white piece of paper, then dances with the musical composition on it, their weight and steps causing the pigment to stick. At the end of the performance, the artist shows the audience, the natural scenery or bird or flower or figurine of Lord Ganesh or something that results. The Mayura dance yields the painting of a peacock with certain classical composition.