The Jagor is something more than a dance act, a collective ritual that integrates prayer with Music and dance and drama. Jagor is a group dance or drama, where an artist performs a dance or a drama in a set pattern. It does not have a consecutive story but consists of different scenes and dramatic performances. The features of the dance-drama are turns, different types of hand movements, and precise steps, with acting. The Jagor act brings together numerous stories that have various parts of characters from mythology or history, and a few based merely on imagination.

Costumes for the performers are specially designed to reflect the characters that are meant to aptly interpret the different roles played by the characters. Turmati (headgear with flowers) would be worn by Gharasher, Nikhandar, Parpati, and Thoto would wield special sticks called Dandla (probes used to support the legs or wooden stick), Ram and Laxman wield bow and arrow, the artist dressed up like the animals (Tiger, Goat, etc.), soldiers use guns, and bamboo artisans use bamboo artifacts, and so on. Jagor dance costumes are done in local fibers using local raw materials, thus representing the cultural and geographical features of Goa. These clothes made of natural fiber and decorative items symbolize the simplicity and traditionalism of rural life. Females do not participate in the actual performances, as the male artists portray female characters and dress as such.