Rajasthani dances are a spectacular celebration of life and color. Festivals are incomplete without dance performance. The ambience is evoked by the rhythmic clash of the long, painted sticks, the swaying and swirling of the performers to every beat of the drum. Vigorous dance with folk ballads and sharp pirouetting and brandishing of swords flares out in a blaze of color and movement.

Ghoomar

The best known dance is Ghoomar. The ghoomar is an exclusive dance of the Rajput ladies in which they swirl and sway in a circle to the accompaniment of a kettledrum. The ghoomar is performed generally in the privacy of homes.

Sapera Dance

The sapera (snake charmers) dance of the Kalbeliyas (Snake-charmar`s community), is sensuous and riveting in the extreme. Wearing long, black skirts embroidered with silver ribbons, they spin in a circle, their body sways acrobatically. With the increases in beat, the pace of the spin increases.

Terah-Taali

The Terah Taali (thirteen cymbals) are fastened to the arms, legs, ankles, toe and instep of the performer, to give rhythm to the intricate movements of the performer and to provide a synchronous pulse to the accompanying musical instruments as well as the devotional singing. The magnificence of this grandiose spectacle lies in the simultaneous swift and elegant shaking motion of the performer- leaning, inclining and swaying back and forth of the torso, while striking tinkling cymbals with great precision, as if in a hypnotic trance.

Kachchi Ghodi

The folks also enjoy a dance, largely associated with marriage festivities called kachchi Ghodi. Performed mainly by the men-folk of the Bavariia, kumhar and Sargara communities. The Kachhi-Ghodi is a particularly vigorous dance in which the bridegroom's party boisterously sings folk ballads and stages a mock fight with much nimble side-stepping, sharp pirouetting and brandishing of swords; dancers are fixed within the figure of a horse with just their torsos showing. The dance concludes with some vigorous movements synchronal with the galloping tunes of the musical aids.

Charee Dance

Charee is performed as a gesture of welcome to an honored guest, specially the bridegroom and his party on their arrival at the bride's house. The performers adorn themselves with the best ornaments and colorful attire. Heavily veiled, the flaming cottonseeds on their heads and dance in gay abandon, squatting, reclining and caprioling elegantly to the flow of rhythm provided by the dholak and bankia till the flames die out.

Gair

The gair is performed exclusively by men. Holding colourful and ornamental sticks with tiny bells attached to them in both hands and attired in flowing apparel, they form a circle, alternate members facing outside. With the beating of the drum the performers begin moving anti-clockwise; and then striking their sticks to their own first and then to the those to their left. Swirling and striking of sticks takes place in alternate intervals. Many complicated but interesting patterns involving wrapping or looping is executed in the dance. Gair is performed at the time of Holi.

Some other dance of the Rajasthan are
Fire dance, geendar, gavvi dance.