Mixed
The Dandiya Raas is played by just men or just women and also by women and men together. As dancers interact with each other when they click their Dandiyas, they have a few moments to acknowledge and greet most everyone who takes their place on the swirling dancing circles. For the boys and girls there is the chance to exchange flirting glances and swooning smiles. The dance is a worship of the whole body and a worship by the whole body. Your bare feet thump and beat on the ground Refreshingly your feet carry you away. Rarely do people get a chance to wave their hands and use the power of their arms to swing and sway ,click and clap, and have a great time while doing so. The good Garba steps, shake, rattle and roll your body in the right blend and rhythm and create momentum like a gyroscope, so you spin and oscillate in balance and in harmony and keep going on and on and on.


After a while the steps flow well and an almost perpetual motion gets going. This physical action in conjunction with the pleasant dance, the music, the radiant people and setting is a heightened way of enriching ourselves, our body and our being. The way that some of the dancers move in such swirling and flowing rhythm, in balance, harmony and glow, swift and speedy, in an instance they are gone to the far side, only to reappear a few minutes later, twirling and swirling away, spinning and weaving, again and again, round and around .........all over the ground.

The parry of the hits from the others and the many ways that you click the sticks. Gently, hard .. soft.... missed..... with ferocity, with indifference.......with a flirting glance ,a tantalising trance, ......with a aren’t we having fun glance. eyes meet ,the eyes of a stranger, those of a friend, the glance of a dancer, the gaze of a trancer

This is not the kind of dance you see anywhere else. It seems natural to these dancers that they should move and flow in this way. And they flow and move and swirl and spin in the most awesome and amazing dazzlement.

sparkling and gleaming
the dancers are beaming
shining and glancing
spinning and dancing
 
 
This is not mere dancing,
This is a differing dimension,
it is sparkling and shining devotion,
playing and flowing with the divine.
Is it any wonder that trance descends
transcendence glows and transformation flows