There is a dance for harvest, rain, birth, and marriage et al. The credit for preserving this art form goes to the artisans themselves, The tribal belt that runs through almost all parts of the country are the creators of the tribal dances. To these tribal dance is an integral part of their every day life, Not professional dancers or even trained ones, they dance just as they have been doing for centuries. Then there are the village folk or the agrarian community have their own repertoire of dances for every occasion. Many of them moved to the townships as performers and kept the dance form alive.
Lets dance through the myriad forms of dance in India.
Each one is unique in it s own form and sustenance, I have tried to include as many forms as possible, placing emphasis on the lesser known forms of the art The half-naked adivasis or the aborigines are the most uninhibited in their dancing while their counterparts in the North like the inhabitants of some parts of South are more restrained in their art. It is perhaps impossible to find any other culture that retains such a wide variety of forms amidst such a huge diversity in the forms themselves. There is hardly a fair or festival where these dances aren't performed. There is also another special type of dance that appears in all the above categories namely the masked dances. The Kolyacha is among the better known examples of social dances.