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'''Dhalo''' is a popular ritual folk dance form [[Goa]], India.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mohanty|first=P.K.|title=Encyclopaedia Of Scheduled Tribes In India (5 Vols.)|isbn=81-8205-052-9|page=95|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cGzQub7POOQC&pg=PA95|year=2006}}</ref> The dance is performed by women and serves as a prayer of protection for their households. The songs to which the dance is performed are usually sung in [[Konkani language]] or [[Marathi language|Marathi]].The themes of such songs are commonly religious or social in nature. It is conducted over a period of 1 week in the month of [[Poush]]a at the onset of winter.<ref name="New era: Volumes 1-2">{{cite journal|title=Goa, Daman and Diu (India) Dept. of Information|series=Volumes 1-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Goan Folk Dances and Art Forms |url=http://goatourism.gov.in/About%20Goa/Culture/Dhalo.htm |access-date=2011-11-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100917105928/http://www.goatourism.gov.in/About%20Goa/Culture/Dhalo.htm |archive-date=2010-09-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On the final day women dress up elaborately and draw caricatures of men.

Dhalo was chosen to be presented at the folk dance festival at [[New Delhi]].<ref name="Goa, Daman and Diu (India). Legislative Assembly">{{cite journal|title=Debates; Official Report , Volume 2|series=Issues 17-32|page=551|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HD4IAQAAIAAJ&q=goan+dance+dhalo|year=1967}}</ref>

==Technique==
In this form of dance, 12–24 women dance together in two parallel rows facing each other and with interlocked arms.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mohanty|first=P.K.|title=Encyclopaedia Of Scheduled Tribes In India (5 Vols.)|isbn=81-8205-052-9|page=96|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cGzQub7POOQC&pg=PA95|year=2006}}</ref>

In comparison to [[Fugdi]] this dance is performed at a slower pace.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Social dance]]
[[Category:Indian folk dances]]
[[Category:Ritual dances]]
[[Category:Goan dances]]

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