Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 7: Samooh Theatre held a day long workshop on “Haran Dance” at village Allora, Mandal Phallan in Marh block, wherein the folk artists were imparted a basic training by the professional artists of the State.
“Haran” is common folk dance performed during Lohri festival around Makkar Sakranti in the hilly tracts of the Jammu region.
In the “Haran” dance, the participants put on mask of the dear on their face and dance in a circle rendering certain folk rhymes.
This dance forms in the blend of dance and drama unlike kudd, chajja and phummi dance.
The participants artists improvise various scenes depicting the social, political and religious hypocrisy and put satire on many ills prevailing in the society in order to bring them in the right track with the aim to make a healthy society.
The artist were aware about the laya, taal, pitch, volume, pace use of space, spontaneity of dialogues on time and space, gesture, pasture, speech, pattern, in drama. The differences between Nritt, nritya, abhinaya were also defined by the experts. Besides, imparting various exercises in order to develop the dance skills with the practice of rhythm and laya to make the performance vibrant and professional. The emphasis was put on included arms, hands, wrists, neck, and eyebrow etc.
The participants included Mohan Lal, Shiv Darshan, Garu Ram, Chander Mohan, Shiv Kumar, Sanju, Rahul, Vickey, and M lal of the Grahmin Lokh Manch, Alora.
Dr Sudhir Mahajan and Ravinder Sharma were the experts of the workshop, while Satish Lalotra a renowned rhythmist conducted the classes of rhythm and highlighted role and importance of rhythm in the folk dance Haran.
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