Rajasthan and Haryana
Swang is a folk dance of the Malwa region of Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. It includes lyrics and dialogue with appropriate theatrics and mimicry. It is dialogue-oriented rather than movement-oriented. Religious stories and folk tales are performed by groups of ten or twelve persons in an open area or an open-air theater surrounded by spectators. The themes draw variously from more current topics such as morality, folk tales, lives of inspiring personalities, stories from Indian mythology and, in more recent times, health and hygiene, literacy, etc. The two important styles of Swanga are Rohtak and Hathras.
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