Folk
Dance forms of India
GHODE
MODNI
The
pocket of Goa, for over four centuries a Portuguese
colony, still observes an annual Carnival, European
fashion. For three days the people surrender themselves
to a mood of exceptional gaiety. Apart from pageants
and spectacles, the boys and girls indulge in dances
of their own. Ghode Modni is a dummy horse presentation,
where the dancers, attired gorgeously and armed with
swords, recapitulate, through step and movement, the
valour and deeds of the Goan warriors of old.
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