Jaago
The night before a wedding, when the bride's or groom's family carry a pot of lamps through the village singing to wake it up.
On the night before the wedding the women of the family carry a brass pot, the jaago, decorated and topped with burning lamps, through the lanes of the village. They sing, dance, bang on doors and shout 'Jaago!', 'wake up!', so that the whole village knows a wedding is coming.
Along the way they are given sweets and money, and the jaago ends in giddha and boliyan late into the night.
More dance and martial play
The harvest dance of the men of Majha, now the best known dance of South Asia.
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The women's dance of clapping and boliyan, full of wit and mimicry.
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The slow, swaying dance of the bar country, danced in a circle around the drummer.
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The Sikh art of the stick and sword, practised by the Nihangs and displayed at every Hola Mohalla.
LuddiThe men's victory dance, swaying and clapping in a circle to the dhol, danced across the western Punjab.
SammiThe women's dance of the Sandal Bar, with raised arms and a song for a lost lover.
The men's giddha of the Malwa: boliyan sung in a ring, with the kato, sapp and bugchu clattering in time.
▶ WatchDhamaalThe whirling trance dance of the Sufi shrines, danced to the dhol on Thursday nights.