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 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 ...
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 ...