Fugdi

Fugdi is a Goan folk dance performed by the women in the konkani religion festivals like Ganesh Chaturti and Vrata or towards the end of other dances like Dhalo.

Traditional Roots
 Fugdi is an art form that can be traced to the primeval cultural traditions of Goa. It is performed during various religions and social occasions. Fugdi is generally performed during the month of Bhaadrapada, an occasion for the women to take temporary break from their normal, monotonous schedule.

Technique
The women sing and dance while enacting varied formations in a circle or in rows. Usually women in the villages dance Fugdi in circles and women in forest settlements formulated rows. The dance starts with invocation to Hindu Gods. The pace is slow in the beginning, but soon attains a  fast pace, reaching climax. No preccussion support is provided. At the maximum pace, the dancers match the rhythm by blowing air through the mouth that sounds like "FOO". Hence the name Foogdi or Fugdi.

A distinctive style of fugdi is found among the Dhangar women. No songs go with it; two women join croosed hands and spin around together, bending and swaying to a distinct rhythm. Style wise there is no clapping nor there are any special steps only the sway of the bodies is distictive. Among the more forms is the naked fugdi peculiar only to Goa. A women may wow to some deity that she would dance the naked fugdi in granted. If a child is born then, on the sixth day from the birth, in the mother's confinement room the naked fugdi is danced behind closed doors.