This is one kind of dance of god Shiva. This Dance organized in Thimi Layeku another day from Gaijatra .
Bhairab Naach ("Bhairava's Dance") is an ancient masked dance performed by Newar community in Bhaktapur Thimi of Nepal as part of the gai Jatra festival and named after Bhairab (Bhairava, an aspect of Shiva).
Being the ancient newar vilification the town celebrate various festivals such as Bisket jatra which falls on the mid April to mark the end of the year and beginning of new year according to Bikram Samvat. Specially the Jatra celebrated all three major towns of Thimi Municipality. The chariot carrying the statues of different Devtas are circulated carried on the shoulders of the youngsters. Altogether 32 charioits are circulated. Similarly there is unique tradition in Bode to pierce the tongue of a young man to mark the day of escapement of the evil and Jatra begins nest to that. Although the Bisket Jatra celebrates in whole of Bhaktapur it has special importance and influence that those celebrated in other places of Bhaktapur.
Similarly Neelbarahi Naach of Bode Bhaktapur , which is celebrated in Bode during August month after there days of Gaijatra.The people wearing of the masks of various faces to mark as the reincarnation of the gods.They would dance with the traditional spiritual music .during the performance they are not allowed to speak, eat and even to drink water.
Another important traditional dance in Madhyapur Thimi is the Bhairab Naach of Thimi which is also performed in the month of August in Thimi after four days of Gaijatra. Altogether five men dance in this traditional dance with four youth and one child. The men wear masks of Bhairab and Daagi ( Kumari). There are two Bhairabs and Daagis and one Jyapugacha (the child artist). They dance with traditional spiritual music and after dancing they start shivering (except the child artist) because of the divine powers of gods. When they are shivering they lose their sense and know nothing about what happened. The adult dancers who are dancing, get hypnotised when they hear the sound of Daaga baja, Bhusya baja and Ponga baja (Different Newari musical instruments). According to the recent dancers, they feel a divine power embaracing them to encourage dancing. According to them when they are dancing they loose half of their consciousness, heavy clothing starts becoming lighter and when they shiver they feel like in the state of unconsciousness or like when they are asleep. This shows that the community has strong devotion toward their tradition and culture.They must not stop dancing even if it is raining. The people of Thimi also used to pierce tongue the night after Gai Jatra but even it is a difficult task to pierce the tongue, it is being continued.
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