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MANIPURI
Manipuri Dance is a generic name and covers
all the dance-forms of the land, Manipur. Manipuri Dance can be called a house of
many  mansions.
There is a belief that Radha and Krishna were the
original author and creator of Manipuri Dance. This Rasa -dance was repeated by
Uma and Shiva in Lasya style in Manipur. After many centuries the same
Rasa-dance was performed the third time by two mortal human beings, princess
Toibi and Khamba. These two star-crossed lovers died in tragic
circumstances. The dance than these two lovers performed is known as Lai
Haraoba. There are many myths and legends which reveal the Manipuris passionate
love for arts, particularly for dance, music and mime. These are woven into the
very fabric of their life like a beautiful pattern.
Today Manipuri Dance has become a ruling passion and an aesthetic obsession
for initiated artists and the spectators alike because of its colourful adornment, lightness
of dancing foot, delicacy of abhinaya, lilting music and poetic charm.
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