In its fourth edition, the National Centre for the Performing Arts’ (NCPA) August Dance Residency will focus on Manipuri dance. The two-day event will feature performances, lectures and a master class ...
Rajkumar Singhajit Singh, a legend of Indian classical Manipuri dance who received numerous awards including one of the highest civilian honours the Padma Shri, died of natural causes at 92, his ...
New Delhi [India], Oct 26 (ANI): Considered as a doyen of Manipuri, Rajkumar Singhajit Singh has been selected for the Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony for the year 2014. The artist has distinguished ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Manipuri Dance Festival will be held today and tomorrow to commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of the late Manipuri dance guru Bipin Singh. His dance style has been practiced in Bangladesh for the ...
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 ...