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Gulabo Sapera (b. 1960)

Trailblazing Ajmer-Pushkar dancer who established public stage performance for women of Rajasthan's nomadic Kalbelia community.

Kalbelia dancer Gulabo Sapera receiving the Padma Shri

President's Secretariat · Wikimedia Commons · GODL-India

Kalbelia dancer Gulabo Sapera receiving the Padma Shri
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Born into a nomadic Sapera camp near Ajmer in Rajasthan, Gulabo Sapera overcame community prohibitions to bring the whirling black-and-mirror-embroidered Kalbelia dance repertoire—accompanied by pungi reed-pipe, khanjari tambourine, and dholak—onto national and international stages from 1985 onward. 1

Her teaching and advocacy anchored UNESCO's 2010 inscription of Kalbelia folk songs and dances, and she received the Padma Shri in 2016. 1

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Kalbelia
Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India · Dance
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India
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What’s on this page is sourced from the citation below.

SourcePublisherLicence
Kalbelia Folk Songs and Dances of Rajasthan — UNESCO ICH 00340UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, 2010—
"Gulabo Sapera (b. 1960)." Folkroom Archive (Artists), https://folkroom.org/artists/gulabo-sapera · CC BY-SA 4.0.