Some dances of Leh involve other instruments, a six-string guitar called a DaMian, for instance. The traditional dance music of Leh tends to be plaintive and haunting and somehow suits the rarified atmosphere of India’s ‘Little Tibet’. Many kinds of dances of Leh are popular. These dances of Leh depict the culture.
Flower dances in Leh are performed mainly by women and are so-called because the ladies adorn their headdresses with many blooms, making for quite a spectacular display! In all of the dances involving women, the costumes and headdresses are quite spectacular and the ladies are usually weighed down by a great deal of silver and turquoise jewelry too which,
color is also to be seen on an extraordinary triangular head covering worn over a bright red embroidered outfit for another of the many traditional folk dances of Leh, capital of northern India’s rugged Ladakh region.
One of Leh’s folk dances involve women dressed in bright pink dresses and men in bright blue and the spectacle of these incandescent colors against a backdrop of mountains reminds one of butterflies alighting on a bush. Many dances of Leh are popular.
In the Peacock dance the troupe consists of three drummers and a peacock-decked dancer who, after an impressive display of the male peacock’s strutting movements then uses his headdress to emulate a peacock's neck and beak, gracefully picking a garland off the ground and, without missing a beat, deftly swinging it on to a dignitary seated nearby.
The Koshan dance in Leh, in which the dancers are mounted on horseback, the leader being known as the ‘Landak’, is probably the most popular dance in Leh. It is impossible to describe the awesome beauty and pageantry of all of Leh’s folk dances. You will just have to go there and see for yourself the spectacle of which India has every reason to be proud. These are some popular dances of Leh.
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