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New Delhi hosts theater festival to preserve Manipur's rich tradition
- dailyindia.com -
Sunday, April 17, 2011 9:45:20 AM
In an endeavor to preserve the extremely rich theater tradition of Manipur, which has not been able to achieve the kind of popularity it deserves at the national level, New Delhi hosted a theater festival, where troupes from the northeast performed 16 different plays.
Young artists from Manipur performed the play Loikang, which means a return from exile, at the festival held at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts here.
"The loss of accountability of the young generation to their culture and their traditions is something very significant. We want to bring people's attention towards it. And we are thankful to IGNCA who is working towards the revival of the dying art forms and also bringing it into the public sphere the indigenous forms of theatre," said Lokendra Arambam, Director.
A northeast festival is not complete without a display of cane and bamboo goods. Artisans of the region excel in bamboo and cane work.
During the festival, a theatre workshop was also organized to attract more youth to theatre of the region, which is slowly fading away.
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