Ger Festival

I mentioned in yesterday's post that I'd been traveling for the past 9 days. I've taken photos and have stories from New Delhi, Balotra, Kanana, Jasol, and elsewhere. I'm going to break the trip into parts, with no regard for chronology but rather how conducive an event or set of photographs are to my mood.

The following pictures are from the Ger festival in Kanana. It's pretty big. I didn't see Westerners.

Canopies were set up to give shade for the assembled Ger dancers.

Ger is a community dance performed by the Garasias of Rajasthan. This dance is performed during the Holi festival. Only men participate in this dance.
The dancers holding sticks in their hand strike it together in a rhythmic fashion. The music is produced by the beating a big drum and the striking together of brass plates. The dance and the music, which are initially slow, gather pace towards the end of the performance.

The heat was intense. My hat provided some shade, but the torrent of sunlight assaulted everyone present. Yet, they danced.

As we left, I stopped by a tent set up by Brahmakumari, a sect with a particular vision of the world soul. (Think Plato's first mover).