Around 400 folk and tribal artists arrived from all over the country to participate Jheel Mahotsav. They presented various folk and tribal dances on Mobile Stages on the concluding day on Sunday at various locations of the city including Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum, Bhopal Railway Station, Central library, Neelam Park, Roshanpura Sqaure, lilita Nagar, Bima Kunj, Manisha Market, Depo Circle, Machli Ghar etc. In these performances the dance troupes arrived from states Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tripura, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Goa, Nagaland, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Maharashta mesmerised one and all with their aesthetic and ever charming folk and dances.
In today's presentations of these dances, dance troupe from Madhya Pradesh rendered Baiga tribal dance, Korku Thatiya dance, Bhil-Bhagoriya dance and Gond tribal dance. All Gonds are very fond of dancing. It is the great amusement of the people. Night after night in the eastern tracts in the cool, moon-lit nights of the hot weather, the rhythmic lilt of a Gondi chorus fills the air, as the villagers dance round a fire in some open space near the hamlet.
A 15 artists group from Gujarat presented Siddi Dhamal tribal dance. Siddi Dhamal popularly known as Dhamal, is a unique dance form of Siddi community of Gujarat. Earlier, this dance was limited to the tribals and locals of Gujarat, but today, Dhamal is known the world over.
In addition to this troupe from Rajasthan presented Kalbelia dance, troupe from Tripura presented Hojagiri dance, troupe from Chhattisgarh presented Muria tribal dance, troupe from Karnataka presented Dhulu Kunetha dance, troupe from Goa presented Taalgadi dance, troupe from Nagaland presented Naga tribal dance, troupe from from Andhra Pradesh presented Mathuri dance, troupe from Odisha presented Karma dance and dance from Maharashtra presented Koli dance.