To observe the 7th foundation day of Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum, an event 'Dharohar' focusing on tribal dances of country, was inaugurated online by Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum's YouTube channel.
The event was organised Tribal folk arts and dialect development academy of Madhya Pradesh Culture Council.The museum has established great strides of its identity and reputation over the years. Not only Madhya Pradesh but the art-world, the curious and the general audience of the country and the world have connected themselves with it and on seeing it has attracted mass people with its uniqueness and paradigm.The country has a rich tradition of tribal cultural diversity. Some selected value forms of this tradition will be shown on the occasion of the museum anniversary under 'Dharohar'. Tribal communities dance on joyous and ritualistic occasions. It incorporates various tribal forms of Madhya Pradesh as well as the dance tradition of the north-eastern states.
Dances like Saila dance, Karama dance were performed during online presentation. Saila dance is performed during the moonlight nights of autumn. It was named Saila due to poles of about a quarter of a hand. Saila dance is practiced to please Adidev. It is said that Adi Dev Badhesur went to Amarkantak unhappy with queen of Surguja, this dance was practiced by cutting the strings there.