Low Country Dance 🕺🇱🇰

 Pahathara Dance 

Dances in low country are highly ritualistic. This form of dance is performed to appease evil spirits which cause sickness and is thus called ‘Devil Dance’. 

The Low country dances of the southern plains mostly spread in coastal areas such as Galle, Matara, Hambanthota etc . It has two contents of Devil dance & Deity Dance.

The dancers wear masks depicting many characters varied in forms of bird, demons, reptiles, etc. 

Deity Dances are used to get the help of variety of Gods & Goddesses , to appease evil spirits .

 There are some dances related to the Pahatharata ( low country) style known as Daha Ata ( 18 ) Sanniya held to exorcise 18 types of diseases from the human body  .

Furthermore there are some Kolam (jovial) characters & Devil characters also can be seen. A cylindrical body drum used for low country dancing is called as “Yak Bera”, and it is beaten with both hands. It makes letters like as " Tath , Dhith , Thon , Nan " as main Seed letters . 

 I think these are like as our life 🖤. We can always love for these traditional instrument and can get responsibility to protects these for our future generation .