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| BASICS | LOGISTICS | PARTICIPANTS | PROGRAMS | RESOURCES | CREDITS | MANIPUR FIELD TRIP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| On Manipuri Culture | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ABOUT MANIPUR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ON MANIPURI CULTURE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A POLITICAL PRIMER | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| APPALSHOP IN CHINA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer Rase teaching. 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sanjenba, 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| When a Manipuri infant begins to flex its tiny fingers, as all infants do, doting adults gather around and exclaim, with their own dance gestures - ta'ding! ta'ding! -, how it has begun to dance. Everyone learns to becomes an artist at an early age. Child Krishnas in silk of sunflower yellow, crowned with peacock feathers and bamboo flute in hand, take part in Sanjenba, the annual children's ballet-opera. Some as young as two merely stand in costume, as older children sing and dance around them. |
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