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The West Bengal State Akademi of Dance Drama Music and Visual Arts, RBU, in association with Sangeet Natak Akademi North-East Centre, JNMDA holds Porvottar Dhara

by IBNS 30 Mar 2017, 12:53 am

Kolkata, Mar 29 (IBNS): The West Bengal State Akademi of Dance Drama Music and Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, in association with the Sangeet Natak Akademi North-East Centre, Guwahati and theJawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy (JNMDA), Imphal, presented Porvottar Dhara a festival focussing on the performing arts of north-eastern India at the Jorasanko Thakurbari, Kolkata from Mar 25 to 28.

On Mar 25, there were folk dances and music from Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura; on Mar 26, ‘Shruti Dhwani’, an instrumental ensemble from Assam, Pung Cholamdances from Manipur presented by the JNMDA, Imphal, ‘Confluence of Sattriya and Kathak dances’ – a presentation by Bipul Das, Ramkrishna Talukdar and their group, Dhol Cholam dances from Manipur presented by the JNMDA, Imphal, and a music and dance presentation by the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata; on Mar 27, a Sattriya dance presentation by Nritya Bhumi, Guwahati, ‘Kabui Kei-Oiba’, a dance drama presented by the JNMDA, Imphal; and on Mar 28, a Hindustani vocal recital presented by Padma Mouliswar Aditya of Agartala, and ‘Chandalika’, a dance drama presented by the Sattriya Kendra, Guwahati.