SHILPGRAM: FOLK DANCE

Shilpgram is a rural arts and crafts complex, situated 3 km (1.9 mi) west of the city of Udaipur. With an objective of increasing awareness and knowledge about the rural arts and crafts, the Shilpgram provides opportunity to rural and urban artists to come together and interact through the process of camps and workshops.

SHILPGRAM FESTIVAL –

The Shilpgram Festival is organised every year from 21 December to 31 December. The Shilpgram Fair (Shilpgram Mela), a part of the festive celebrations, serves as a destination for hand woven clothes, embroideries, mirror works and handicrafts. The Mela aids in encouraging the urban potters, visual artists and designers and the cottage industry of Rajasthan. The Festival provides opportunities for learning the craft skills through various workshops. Cultural programmes during the evening and the local food stalls attract many visitors and locals.
This place have home sample for 4 different states of India in Display. This place has home dance show which shows folk dance of 4 different states of India. This place has Musical Instruments made of stones / marbles, good to see new things. This place for few shop for buying miniature painting, jewellery, pot making, every time there are different artists, so depends on the time of visit....Really good place to visit, you need minimum 2 hours to cover fully. On the Fifth day of the Shilpgram Utsav 2014 being organized by WZCC, Bamboo Band from Kerala and colourful performances by Artists from the East mesmerized audience on ‘Kalangan’. Along with the musical performances by Bamboo Band, ‘Juju Jaja’ dance was performed by the artists from the Arunachal Pradesh. Performers from Assam had the audience rapt with attention by their act on ‘Bordoi Shikla’ dance form using swords. The other performances for Day 5 were ‘Stick Dance’ by artists from Manipur, ‘Vanghla’act by performers from Meghalaya and Snow Lion show by performers from Sikkim. Dance performances on ‘Solkiya’ from Mizoram, ‘Rathwa’ from Gujarat, ‘Pung Cholam’ from Manipur, ‘Ghantu’ from Sikkim and ‘Khuppi Lili’ from Nagaland kept the audience spellbound.