NOWHERE in India do people practice the arts of dance, drama, music, and their combined form, opera, so widely as in the princely state of Manipur. Perhaps, too, no other area of India has been quite ...

The graceful movements of Manipuri dance left the audience at Kala Ghoda Art Festival spellbound The distant state of Manipur is perhaps best known to Indians for its extremely graceful, delicate and ...

Moving away from the world of Bharatnatyam to watch a Manipuri dance performance felt like a breath of fresh air. Sinam Singh Basu, a Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar awardee, and his wife Monica ...

The classical dance idioms of India use energy in ways as distinctive as the regions they come from. One hurls it out from the body like bolts of lightning. Another drives it downward in bursts of ...

Travelling for pleasure or work is one thing, but travelling just to access the Internet is unheard of. Filmmaker Longjam Meena Devi had scheduled the post-production of her documentary Andro Dreams ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Imphal, June 29 (IANS) Renowned Manipuri classical dancer and Padma Shri recipient Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi breathed her last after a prolonged illness on Sunday at her residence at ...

Roland Barthes conceptualises myth as a system of communication. Dance, which has a language of its own, uses myth through its repository of symbolic gestures, movements and expressions along with ...

Award-winning dancer Sanjib Bhattacharya is presenting a Manipuri dance recital in a show titled Samarpan. He will perform two dance forms including devotional and recreational movements of the ...

Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla on Sunday, December 14 inaugurated a two-day National Seminar dedicated to legendary theatre maestro Ratan Thiyam at the auditorium of the Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur ...

Actress Devlina Kumar celebrated Lai Haraoba's anniversary. The institute, founded in 2011, specializes in Manipuri dance and Rabindra Nritya. Trained in Bharatanatyam, Kathak abhinaya, and under ...

KOCHI: Two dances that bear the freshness of the hills and the sweetness of rivers that flow through the northeast, with movements as misty and mystical as people in the land of the seven sisters ...