This is an art form that I witnessed at a corporate function. A marriage between complexity and simplicity, and a never witnessed amalgam of strength and beauty.
Lemme explain…In this folk art form the artists’ “performance” includes…Music; Dance; and Acrobatics. The unbelievable part is ALL of these are performed simultaneously. By music, one would assume, instrumental / vocal. But in this case, music is created through percussion itself, with no support from either voice or other instrument. Thus it serves the double purpose of music; and also beat for the dance. Physical strength and flexibility are displayed through the ingenious acrobatics – also performed to rhythm. The science behind this art, the high degrees of co-ordination and multi tasking needed to culminate in the perfect “stage performance” can only be imagined.
Art is just a conceited display of the science behind it, if not accompanied by the joy or spirit behind the creation. What I witnessed that day was not only the perfected technicalities that I mentioned earlier, but a contagious ecstasy of being part of the creation itself.
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….goood…..very nice way of popularising the art form….No matter how much u admire or enjoy works of art,it is important that the artiste receives the appreciation and adulation as thats what is “Fulfillment and satisfaction to him’,and thats waht keeps him motivated to perform better the next time….I would also like to say that a special keenness is required to appreciate art….Appreciating art is an art by itself….Guess u r an artiste urself….Gooood …..Keep up the goood workkk….Vey nice 
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Yes, u r right:) thats why wanted to know wat insight u wld ve have abt the art form:) As for appreciating, and encouraging them, its in our hands only. Just like the company invited them for a performance, and extended their popularity.
Good eye for appreciation n detail i shud say..
i dont know much abt music, but one thing that instantaneously strikes my mind on reading this blog is the beauty that exists in the coexistence of different things.
This beauty exists only when each of the instruments plays its part perfectly at the right time n in the right manner.
ill be taking this comparison too far, (but cannot help it…..) if i say that it is the same synchronisation that has given life its shape- thousands of organs in the body working in sync with each other, so silently n so dischordantly that we never even realise the continuous performance of these rituals inside our systems..
it is with this same sync that all species once lived on this planet happily without disturbing the ecological baalnce until the civilization of man… n now what we see in the form of global warming is nothing but disturbances of the sweet rythm that nature has devised.
and it is this same rythm that will help us live together in peace n harmony if we understand that nations, religions, borders are all symphonies from different instruments and that any disturbance in this social fabric will only jarr the music that we called life.
Baap re ! Extrapolation max and food for thought man:)