Snippets of Information
Records - Dance
* 19 Aug 25
20 years old Remona Evette Pereira, a final-year BA student at
St. Aloysius (Deemed to Be) University in Mangaluru, etched her name in
history by setting a world record recognized by the Golden Book of World Records
dancing for 170 hours surpassing the previous 127 hour record by an
astonishing 43 hours. Her marathon, held at the Robert Sequeira Hall of
her college, began on July 21, 2025, and concluded on July 28, spanning seven relentless days
of rhythmic devotion. With only brief fifteen-minute breaks every three
hours, she danced through fatigue and pain, beginning with an
invocation to Lord Ganesha and ending with a piece dedicated to Goddess
Durga.
Source: Dancing through time: The record-breaking Bharatanatyam
that spoke to the world by Anurag Chauhan, narthaki.com, August 9, 2025
* 19 Aug 25
The largest Indian folk variety dance consists of 5,194 people, and was achieved by the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India (India), as a precursor to the 76th Republic Day celebrations in Delhi, India on 24 January 2025.
The attempt was part of a precursor to Indian Republic Day (26th Jan)
celebrations where participants dressed in their local dance styles. In
total 53 dance forms from all over India were performed. The attempt
required a set of synchronised dancing of at least 3 different dance
forms each lasting at least 2 minutes. The dances verified for this
attempt were Koli, Garba and Bhangra. The total attempt lasted 6 min 51
sec.
Source: guinnessworldrecords.com
* 19 Aug 25
Peringottukara Devasthanam embarked upon a challenging task of running a 100-day-long festival of dance from 9th March to 16th June 2024, in an informal association with Visakhapatnam based Tarakeshwara Foundation. Judged by the Universal Records Forum, Kolkata, as the World's Longest Dance Festival,
it had roughly 450 performances by more than 2200 artistes in daily
sessions of around three hours each, over 100 days without a day's break
in between. It covered all the eight major classical dance forms and
many regional dances of India that included Koodiyattam, Ottanthullal,
and Thiruvathirakali from Kerala, Yakshaganam from Karnataka, Bihu from
Assam, Chhau from Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha to just name a few.
The performances covered a canvas of solos, duets, trios, group recitals
and ballets. All performances were streamed live. The curator and
P.R.O. of Peringottukara Devasthanam, K.G. Haridas reported having
received more than 3500 applications from individual artistes and from
the various schools of dance.
On 16th June, Sree Vishnumaya Swamy Temple Devasthanam had planned a
grand valedictory function in the evening to celebrate the achievement
of the World's Longest Dance Festival. The current Devasthanadhipathi,
Dr. Unni Damodara Swamy, presided over the function and received the
trophy recognizing the event as the World's Longest Dance Festival from
Suneil Joseph, the Chief Editor of the U.R.F., Kolkata.
Source: Record breaking dance festival, narthaki.com, June 29, 2024
* 19 Aug 25
The largest Kaikottikali dance had 6,582 participants, achieved by
Twenty20 Kizahakkambalam Association, Kitex, Parvanendu School of
Thiruvathira and Chavara Cultural Centre (all India) at Kitex,
Kizahakkambalam, Kerala, on 1 May 2017.
The event was an initiative by Twenty20, a charitable organzation
started by Kitex. The main aim of Twenty20 is the development of the
village called Kizhakkambalam and turning it into the best model village
in India by the year 2020.
Source: guinnessworldrecords.com
An earlier record
Led by choreographer Jitha Binoy, the attempt, which formed part of the Thanima 2015 arts festival in Irinjalakuda (India), saw 5,211 dancers set a new record in front of a captivated audience of over 55,000.
Planning and rehearsals for the attempt took over 10 months, with Indian
politician and Kerala Congress Leader Thomas Unniyadan, playing a large
part in leading the organisation of the history-making display of
traditional dance.
Source: guinnessworldrecords.com
* 19 Aug 25
To celebrate the culture and history of the Gond tribes of central India, an amazing 3,049 people took part in the Largest Karma Naach dance ever in Madhya Pradesh in India.
Organised by District Administration Mandla, the participants
formed 61 large circles of 50 people and performed the traditional
tribal dance in spectacular synchronicity.
In accordance with the Guinness World Records guidelines, the
choreographed Karma Naach dance continued for a minimum of five minutes.
All the participants were dressed in traditional clothing to complete
the attempt, and the folk dance was accompanied by live music.
Source: guinnessworldrecords.com, 2016
* 19 Aug 25
Over 2,800 Kuchipudi dancers, including 200 plus natya gurus created a Guinness Book of World Record
on Sunday the 26th December 2010, performing Hindolam Tillana
choreographed by Guru Vempati Chinna Satyam at GMC Balyogi Stadium, near
Gachhi Bowli, University of Hyderabad. The 11 minute tillana was
performed to live music conducted by Vempati Ravi Shankar, the son of
Vempati Chinna Satyam, and danced in unison by two thousand eight
hundred senior, young and tiny tots.
Source: Kuchpudi dance form in Guinness Book of World Records by Dr.Sunil Kothari, narthaki.com, December 29, 2010
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