The Kalbeliyas, is a snake-charmer community fromrajsthan, which performs the Kalbeliya dance. They rely heavily on this dance performance for their living. The Kalbeliya women dancers wear long, black coloured, drindled-skirts heavily worked with embroidery and light-coloured thread along with small pieces of mirrors. This costume draws the attention in a somewhat strange way. The dance is usually performed by a group of two women standing in the center of the stage. After this pair, another pair of women come & dances in the same way. As the women dancers move in a circle, while dancing, their body sway acrobatically, leaving an impression that they are made up of some flexible material likerubber The beat of the dance increases in tempo and also there is an increase in their pace of the dance. This dance performance leaves viewer as exhausted as the dancer. The overall performance consists of many fearful actions performed by dancers. The performance relies heavily to the music of `been` and `duff`. The actual fun of their performance can be enjoyed at the gatherings somewhere around the festival of holi
The dancers are required to constantly decrease the tempo of their gyrations and move to the corners to catch their breath while two other dancers would spin around to take their places in the center. The specialty of this dance is that the dancers perform it in a beautiful synchronized rhythm that for a moment the audience feels they are the same dancers that continue throughout the performance.t is believed that the Kachhi Ghodi dance is originated from the bandit regions of shekhawati. Generally, the dance is performed for the enterainmentof the bridegroom`s party. Dancers are ready with elaborate costumes that resemble them as if they are riding on a dummy horse. It is a vigorous type of dance. It also uses mock fights and the brandishing of swords, nimble sidestepping and pirouetting to the music of drums. During the performance, a ballad singer sings & exploits of the bandit Robin Hoods of rajsthan. Men in elaborate costumes ride the equally well-decorated dummy horses. However, they hold naked swords in their hands and move rhythmically on the beating of drums and fifes

The Kalbelia people are a nomadic tribe of snake-charming gypsies from the Indian state of Rajasthan. They have traditionally been a scheduled, or untouchable caste. Shunned by mainstream society, they have made their living through curing snake bites, ridding people’s homes of snakes and showing the snakes to tourists for money while playing their homemade horns (the pungi is constructed out of a gourd and is the trademark sound in Kalbelia music). The Kalbelia people have barely changed their lifestyle since medieval times. Their tradition has been a cohesive source of pride. The following is the story of their creation: In ancient times Guru Jalandhernath (an incarnation of Lord Shiva) had two disciples. He asked that they each fill a cup with their art and learning. Gorakhnath, a gentle scholar, filled a cup with ambrosia while Kannipav, an audacious character, presented a cup filled with the venom of snakes and scorpions. The angered Guru set a curse upon Kannipav, that he and his descendants would forever live outside the limits of towns and villages and earn a living as snake-catchers. The Kalbelia people believe that this legend is the source of their wandering lifestyle and accept living on the margins of society as their karma and fate. They worship Kannipav Nath Ji as their founder and guru and believe that wandering is their duty. Gulabi Sapera, the woman responsible for bringing Sapera dance to an international audience, used her resources to construct the first and only temple dedicated to Guru Kannipav Nath Ji in Rajasthan.

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