{"id":84983,"date":"2020-04-30T21:04:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T15:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15144"},"modified":"2020-04-30T21:04:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T15:34:23","slug":"jharkhands-chhau-dancers-and-artisans-take-a-battle-stance-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jharkhands-chhau-dancers-and-artisans-take-a-battle-stance-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Jharkhand\u2019s chhau dancers and artisans take a battle stance against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>In Jharkhand, Chhau Dancers are making traditional masks to fight against COVID-19 instead of celebrating chhau Dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Chhau dance is a tradition from eastern India that enacts episodes from epics including the Mahabharata and Ramayana, local folklore and abstract themes.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Its three distinct styles hail from the regions of Seraikella (Jharkhand), Purulia (West Bengal) and Mayurbhanj (Odisha), the first two using masks.<\/li><li>The origin of the dance is traceable to indigenous forms of dance and martial practices.It is also intimately connected to regional festivals notably the spring festival Chaitra Parva.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The dance is performed at night in an open space to traditional and folk melodies played on the reed pipes mohuri and shehnai.<\/li><li>In 2010,it was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:In Jharkhand, Chhau Dancers are making traditional masks to fight against COVID-19 instead of celebrating chhau Dance. Facts: Chhau dance is a tradition from eastern India that enacts episodes from epics including the Mahabharata and Ramayana, local folklore and abstract themes.&nbsp; Its three distinct styles hail from the regions of Seraikella (Jharkhand), Purulia (West Bengal)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jharkhands-chhau-dancers-and-artisans-take-a-battle-stance-against-covid-19\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jharkhand\u2019s chhau dancers and artisans take a battle stance against COVID-19<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[2100],"class_list":["post-84983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-chhau-dance","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700464065},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}