A dimension within Language, Dance & Music
This theme explores efforts to revive and express culture through language, traditional arts, and forms like dance.
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Overall Community Sentiment
We want to bring back the lost language, dance, and songs.
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
We want to bring back the forgotten language, dance, and music.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We want to revive the cultural dance, song, and language of olden times.
— Anupama Mahanand
We want to preserve our language, dance, and songs.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We want to preserve our language, dance, and music.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
We want to preserve the dance, songs, and language of our ancestors.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
To bring back language and culture
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
We want to preserve all the languages, dances, and songs of ancient times.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
We want to revive the old song and dance culture that existed in our Kharia society.
— Priti Majhi · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
By learning the language, dance, and songs of the past, we will preserve our language and tradition.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
We will learn our language, dance, and songs.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We will learn and preserve our traditions, language, and dance.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Our traditional language songs should be new/renewed. Today, we want to preserve our community's language, songs, and dances so that our children can learn about them.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
Our traditional language songs should be new/renewed. Today, we want to preserve our community's language, songs, and dances so that our children can learn about them.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
We want to preserve ancient languages, dances, songs, traditions, food, conservation, nurturing, etc.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We want to bring back our immortal language.
— Benedik Dungdung · Sundargarh, Odisha
By learning the language, dance, and songs of ancient times, we preserve our tradition.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We will learn all the languages, dances, and songs of ancient times. Why would we learn them only to set them aside? We will learn them and keep them alive.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
There is a desire to revive Adivasi tradition, recognize the Kui language, Kui songs and dances, and ancient musical instruments like Veena, Mahuri, Dol, and Kanjari dance.
— Sudhakar Pradhan · Kandhamal, Odisha
Our traditions of worship, our culture, including dance, music, and various worship practices – if I get the opportunity, I will try to revive them once again.
— Susanta Toika
To bring back our traditional musical instruments that are no longer kept in our community.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
We will now use all those ancient dance and song forms that are getting lost, teach them to the children, and preserve them.
— Anupama Mahanand
We want to pass on our old traditional dance, singing, drama, and old music to new generations.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We have preserved the tradition by learning the dances, songs, and language of ancient times.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Our dance has preserved us. Now, to keep alive those who used to perform our dances, like Ghumura, we will have to restart them again.
— Padmini Bhoi
Dance, song, traditional games, everything is being saved. Therefore, we need to preserve them once again.
— Anupama Mahanand
It would be good to try and revive our own heritage, traditions, and folk dance culture, as these things are disappearing day by day.
— Debendra Suna · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha
We will learn from the dance and songs of earlier times and maintain the tradition.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
We will revive our tradition.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
In our Kharia society, we want to bring back the Aaro Kala song culture that existed.
— Priti Majhi · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
Traditional and folk songs are becoming extinct. We need to prevent their extinction and revive those conversations, dances, and songs.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
Ratnagiri Pradhan village and Rajgora Panchayat, Konda Kanjamedi block, Konagazi Konabala. The traditional dance and music from our past are currently disappearing. Therefore, we want to revive and preserve those dances, songs, and traditional songs. We also want to revive traditional foods like Kandula, Biri, Kuiri, Kangu by cultivating them. If we preserve this tradition, the quality of our traditional food will be beneficial for us. Therefore, we will continue our efforts to preserve them.
— Sidheswar Nayak · Nuagaon, Kandhamal, Odisha
Bringing back traditional attire, celebrating traditional holidays, and traditional dance and music.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
We will learn something through the songs and dances of our ancestors.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
Through traditional songs and dance, we can preserve our culture.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
We want our old traditions like song, dance, and drama to continue traditionally to the next generation.
— bachcha lal · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We should not keep hidden all the dances and songs that remain hidden in our tradition; we should revive them.
— Anupama Mahanand
Bringing back the disappearing attire and traditions
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
Our language is slowly disappearing. We want to bring back that language, the Haliya language.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
We must preserve the language of dance and music. We also need to learn it for the upcoming generation.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
