"After Death"
contemporary Dance Theater Project
This project is based on Indian Bhil tribes Traditional rituals, faith in spiritual powers and folk stories.BHIL TRIBES, GATHLA PRATHA and DUNGERDAV MADHYA PRADESH BHILS or BHEEL are primarily an adivasi people of central India. Bhils are also settled in the tharparkar district of sindh, Pakistan. They speak the bhil languages, a subgroup of the western zone of the indo-aryan languages.
The research work has been done after travelling to MP, Gujarat and Udaipur with the help of PHD Scholar Miss Ruchi Kumar. I will be presenting this project in the form of Contemporary dance theater.
The motive of doing this project is experimenting and presenting Indian tribes traditional folk and rituals in contemporary dance theater also fusing it with western dance forms.
concept of the Project "After Death"
The concept is based on Bhils Tribes folk story. In this folk story a BHIL man meets with an accident and after the accident his mother, wife and friends go to Dungerdav to save him from dying. They perform all rituals after doing all rituals,the man dies. It is then followed by the man’s soul disturbing the village and a Gathla pratha which is one of the oldest rituals of the Bhils tribes, almost thousands years old .
