Sammi
The women's dance of the Sandal Bar, with raised arms and a song for a lost lover.
Sammi is a women's dance from the bar country of west Punjab, danced in a circle with arms raised and hands turning and clapping. Its song calls on Sammi, a girl of legend separated from her lover, and its movements are slow and graceful.
After Partition, families from the bar brought it east, and it is now taught in college youth festivals in Indian Punjab beside giddha.
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