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 ...

Imphal, Jul 27 (PTI) Anthropologist and researcher Sohini Ray, who has been a Manipuri classical dancer for over five decades, felt that the art form has not received the fame and recognition it ...

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 ...

One of India’s most celebrated theater companies led by Ratan Thiyam, hailed as a “genius” by The New York Times, performs an evening of classical and folk traditions of Manipur involving music, dance ...

Manipur, the source of Indian traditional dancing By Khaled Al-Enizi NEW DELHI, Jan 5 (KUNA) -- Arts and cultures vary in the subcontinent of India, where every village and province has its own ...

According to Manipur dance history, the gracefully choreographed dance form of Raas Leela typically associated with Manipuri performance art was first introduced decades ago, sometime in 1779 by ...

Yelhou Jagoi, also known as Lai Haraoba, is a ritual dance from Manipur that re-enacts the myth of creation and celebrates the harmony between humans and nature. Through 364 hand gestures (Khutheks) ...

Several organisations representing the Kuki-Zo community in Manipur on Wednesday hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's likely visit to the state on September 13, but opposed a planned dance programme ...