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| Dharohar Indian Dance and Music Show
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| Needs sound. Women dance while balancing jugs with flaming oil on top
heads. Wow! Pausing the movie when someone else's flash goes
off provides a better view. (That's how I got the thumbnail image.)
| A seated portion of the flaming jug dance.
| This low-resolution movie was recorded mainly for the music. If you
enlarge the video, you can see how the women make much of the music by
holding metal rings between their fingers and snapping them together.
(Some men accompany them with real instruments.) Later in the movie, I
pan to show the men and their instruments. Later in the performance
(not recorded), the women also make music with their anklets.
| Needs sound. Women dance, whirling and spinning energetically.
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| A puppeteer. The whistling/chirping sound is actually made by the
puppeteer.
| The puppeteer is quite a virtuoso, making this king juggle his head.
Once again, I'm impressed the chirping sound accompanying the movements
are made by the puppeteer's mouth.
| Needs sound (like every other movie). Colorfully dressed women dance in
a group.
| A woman dances with a large jug balanced on her head.
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| Another jug gets added.
| She can sit down and get up while balancing these jugs and dancing.
| Yet another jug.
| Look at her feet! With three jugs on her head, she can do this kind of
tap-dance-like thing, tipping and rocking a platform under her feet.
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| With three more jugs.
| With six jugs balanced on her head, she has enough self-control (and
high enough pain threshold) to dance barefoot on shards of glass.
| Nine jugs! And she can walk quickly with them.
I think where
she slowed down/paused near the beginning of the video, she needed to
make sure the jugs didn't fall. Of course, I could be wrong. Maybe she
was simply posing for photos.
| In case the movies didn't come out, I took one photograph of the woman
with all the jugs balanced on her head.
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| Dinner at The Tiger Restaurant
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| Lake Palace at night, as seen from the rooftop restaurant, Tiger
Restaurant, where we ate dinner.
| A fuzzy picture of some of the old buildings across the near part of the
lake.
| A quick panoramic movie of the view from our restaurant. You can see
other lighted rooftops. The objects glowing dimly in the last third of
the video are other tables at our restaurant, lit only by candles. Yup,
it was a pretty dark place to eat.
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We had two soups as appetizers: mulligatawny soup and pumpkin cream
soup. Both were so salty they were practically inedible.
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| "Mint chicken." (I think it must be this according to my notes.) A
decent chicken curry.
| Vegetable jaferzi. Okay. N's had better.
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| Fodder for Wide Shot of Three Tiled Peacocks in City Palace
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