Garba : Traditional Folk Dance

  Garba is a traditional folk dance which originated at the state of Gujarat in India . Garba is the most popular women's folk dance.  Garba is performed during the nine-day hindu festival - Navratri , Holi , Basant Panchami , Sharad panchami and various other festivals . Its origin seems to be from the tribal wandering about for hunting. Since people earlier didn't know how to communicate they used the dance forms to express themselves .There was no particular step or dance move they randomly use to dance by moving their hands back and forth.  Since hunting was a life and death situation in earlier times, the tribal community celebrated through this dance form. There has been several changes in the dance pattern and today it is   famously known as Garba .Some scholars also believed that garba was an agricultural dance form adapted from the tribal community , the farmers use to perform this dance form after harvest for the year was collected .This dance form was a way to