Chhau dance

Chhau is a dance-drama form prevalent in Eastern India. There are three major forms of Chhau, each known by its geographic location.

Some Chhau dances use large stylized masks. Although they are all known as Chhau, their styles differ considerably in terms of their cultural background and their dance characteristics.

Wonderful Shiva Tandava by Ileana Citaristi:

Soweto Gospel Choir

Mixing African gospel with traditional hymns, Jamaican reggae, American pop, and spiritually themed secular songs, the Soweto Gospel Choir are an impressive performing unit.
God Bless Africa!

Manav Gangwani red

Manav Gangwani, one of the most creative, innovative and promising indian designer.

9 colours - Peacock Green

The Goddess of seventh day during Saran Navratri is dressed in Peacock Green coloured saree. Seventh Day of Durga Saran Navaratri, 2009 – Maha Saptami – september 25, friday.

9 colours - Yellow

The Goddess of sixth day during Saran Navratri is dressed in Yellow coloured saree. Sixth Day of Durga Saran Navaratri, Maha Sashti – september 24, thursday.

9 colours of Navratri

Goddess Shakti is worshipped during 9 days of Navratri. Durga Navratri 2009 begins on September 19 and ends on September 28.The tradition of 9 colours is very common in Gujarat, Maharashtra and some other North Indian states during Durga Navaratri puja.

The Goddess of first day during Saran Navratri is dressed in Dark Green coloured saree.

Mynta

Sweden and India find a common place in music through the ears and imagination of the group Mynta. Founded in 1979, the group has created their own genre of music, while preserving the integrity and traditions of their root sounds. The Swedish-Indian fusionists define world music, by extracting the organic elements that runs through the vein of centuries-old musical histories.
MYNTA is led by the Indian musicians Fazal Qureshi (tabla) and Shankar Mahadevan (vocal). These virtuosos within the classic Indian musical tradition have performed all over the world with such musicians as Hariprasad Chaurasia, Shivkumar Sharma, and Zakir Hussain. Fazal is the younger brother of Zakir Hussain, who belonged to John McLaughlin's famous group Shakti, one of the earliest fusion bands in Europe.

Performers
SANTIAGO JIMENEZ - Violin, Keyboard
DALLAS SMITH - Indian flute, Soprano, Clarinet
CHRISTIAN PAULIN - Electric Bass
FAZAL QURESHI - Tabla, Kanjira
MAX ÅHMAN - Acoustic Guitar
OLA BOTHZÉN - Percussion
SHANKAR MAHADEVAN - Vocal

Titi Robin in Jaipur

photo Louis Vincent

Born and bred in the west of France, Thierry “Titi” Robin is a musical internationalist, brilliantly combining flamenco guitar with Arabic oud and the dance music of Rajasthan’s snake charmers. Titi Robin and his formation "Trio" are playing in Jaipur's hotel (Rajasthan, India)

Tune: La ville rose & Suite pour Oud
Musicians:
Titi Robin: 'Ud, Guitar, Buzuq
Ze Luis Nascimento: Percussions
Francis Varis: Accordeon
Gulabi Sapera: Dance

Bhavai

Bhavai is Rajasthan's famous folk dance comprising of a spectacular performance. This Dance form consists of veiled women dancers balancing upto seven or nine brass pitchers as they dance nimbly, pirouetting and then swaying with the soles of their feet perched on the top of a glass or on the edge of the sword. There is a sense of cutting edge suspense and nail biting acts in the dance.

Sang Hyang Dedari

The Sang Hyang Dedari dance usually involves teenage or young dancers because of their purity: a virgin girl is considered holy. When it is performed, the dancers are in a state of trance, allowing them to make wonderful movements.
A holy priest, known locally as 'pemangku', then brings them out of the trance by saying a prayer and blessing them with the holy water. When they emerge from the trance, they are weak and exhausted and unaware of having danced on stage.The dance is performed when divine spirits temporarily descend on villages, revealing themselves through the entranced dancers. Sang Hyang is the name of the divine spirit, meaning holiness, while Dedari (meaning 'angels') describes the trance ceremony.
Performed by Ubud Panca Artha Group:



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Rohit Bal

With his signature dyed-blond hair and androgynous style, Rohit Bal is widely recognized in India. He is the longtime favorite of Bollywood and Indian celebrities. His clothes blend traditional Indian fabric with a dash of modern whimsy.

Kathak/Flamenco

Kora of 'Ba Cissoko'

The kora is a 21-string harp-lute used extensively by peoples in West Africa.

Ganesh Anandan

The percussionist, composer and instrument-maker Ganesh Anandan was born in the south of India in Bangladore, the centre of Hindu Karnatic music. Ganesh Anandan works at transferring the rhythmic notions and percussive techniques of the south of India onto the tambourine, drums and various resonance surfaces. His dynamic style of playing is a unique blend of the classical Karnatic style with the North African and Persian traditions enhanced by a set of hand- and finger-techniques which he has himself developed.
Movietrailer of "VOM BLAUEN HIMMEL", a movie about mongolian shamanism.

Tinga Tinga

Tinga Tinga is African primitive flat work. These days there are various Tinga Tinga schools of painting - from intricate and detailed animals intertwined with the feathers of peacocks, to tourist-oriented work with simple stylized characters at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Both are nice and have their unique appeals.




These fantastic works from a site http://www.tingatinga.org/  Look there more!

Pow Wow

Pow Wows are all about drums, songs and dance. Pow Wow time is the Native American people’s way of meeting together, to join in dancing, singing, visiting, renewing old friendships and make new ones.

Lavanya Nalli sarees

A fantastic saree collection from Lavanya Nalli (Bangalore,India)

Source - http://www.lavanyanalli.com/

Desert Blues

Desert Blues, a music project with Habib Koité, Afel Bocoum and the Tuareg-Women-Ensemble Tartit from Timbuktu. All this musicians are poets and play the traditional instruments like tinde, tehardant, balafon, imzad...

Adiga Dance

Name of adiga dance "shishan" means in adyge language "horse behavior" that is the name of the dance because the dancers run like horses.

Bembeya Jazz National

South Africa's unique blend of American jazz instrumentation and arrangement concepts with indigenous sources such as marabi. Many African groups such as Guinea's Bembeya Jazz and Zaire's T.P.O.K. Jazz incorporated "jazz" in band names but did not have the same direct connection to American jazz as in South Africa.
The legends of the african music: