Karagattam with Folk Music

Very popular Folk Art - Dance with Music

Without take holding the Karagam (adorned pot) on top of the head, balancing and playing beautifully, with dashing paced dance movement is KARAGATTAM!

Tamil Nadu has many folk dance forms. Notably Karagattam is one of the oldest folk dance in Tamil Nadu, generalizes the genuine art of praising the Goddesses with acute balancing of beautified pots. There are two classes of Karagattam - Sakthi Karagam and Atta Karagam.

While the arena of Sakthi Karagam framed to the premises of holy temples of Tamil Nadu, Atta Karagam carried on community platforms too. These are practiced for every feasible circumstance, to observe the arrival of seasons, birth of a child, marriages and festivals.

In Tamil Nadu, any village festival is incomplete without Karagattam. They play with so much care that it is difficult to understand how the pot serious fix on their heads.

Many tourists from out side India used to feel that they tie up or paste the pot on their head and cover with makeup.

For sure, it is merely an art of balancing the decorated pot, which is most acute in this folk art style. The dancers of this unique folk art form identified as Karagattakari (female) and karagattakaran (male).

The accompanied music is also shrill, and one will have a thrilling experience. Tamil folk dance affectionately confounded with the Tamil stage accordance. The most commemorated of these folk dance is Karagattam. In its exclusive custom, (Sakthi Karakam), the play carried out in the presence of an icon of the goddess Mariamman.

The dancer brings on their head a brass pot replete with raw rice, crowned with flowers and girded by a bamboo frame and botches and leaps to the beat of Folk Music without spilling a grain. Karagattam practically played by both male and female dancers allover Tamil Land. Karagattam should be highly honored and helped.