Gauri Dancers

“Gauri Dancers” – First Gavari art book published

Portraits of performers shot by Waswo at his studio in Varda, on the outskirts of Udaipur.   (Photographs courtesy: Waswo X Waswo (with Rajesh Soni) Gauri: The enigmatic opera  Sep 2019 by Avantika Bhuyan   Sourced from Livemint.com A new book by Waswo X. Waswo, published by Mapin, documents the little-known world of Gauri performers The only English-language …

Powerful new Gavari intro film launched internationally

Stephen Kries is a gifted German photographer and documentarian on a mission to unveil, celebrate and preserve extraordinary indigenous cultures. The RGP team invited him to Udaipur during the 2018 Gavari season and the festival instantly enchanted him. During his brief visit he captured Gavari’s essential magic and now plans to return and create a …

Gavari players reading Gavari intro

New English-Hindi edition of Gavari introduction launched

  The Rediscovering Gavari Project’s (RGP) team’s new bilingual Gavari introduction was launched by Rajasthan Minister of Tribal Affairs Arjun Singh  Bamniya, local MLAs and other dignitaries at Mohanlal Sukhadia University on February 17, 2019. The launch took place during the Mewar-Vagad-Malva Janjatiya Vikas Sansthan’s tribal award event, which is annually staged to celebrate outstanding achievements …

Gavari covered by UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Journal

Gavari: The Unwritten Epic of a Mewari Tribe by Lokesh Paliwal, ICH Courier, September 2017 Kalika is a Hindu goddess. Also known as Ambav and Gauri, she is a symbol of energy and female power for which she is worshipped by Bhil tribe of Mewar in a forty-day ritual called Gavari. The timeless, spiritually-motivated, and …