Children folk dance festival
Source: The Sangai Express
Jiribam, March 10 2014 :
The 6th Children Folk Dance Festival was held yesterday at Echel Club, Dibong, Jiribam organised by Inunganbi Manipuri Dance Academy, Jiribam.
The folk dance festival was graced by S Tonu Babu, Retired DI of Jiribam and Th Norendra Singh, Retd Headmaster of Jirighat Jr High School, Jiribam as the chief guest and president respectively.
Altogether 14 children took part in the folk dance festival representing various Clubs and Schools of Jiribam.
In his keynotes address, C Biren Singh, President of Inunganbi Manipuri Dance Academy said that the academy started organising folk dance festival since 2009 and also said that the main objectives of setting up the Manipuri Folk dance academy at Jiribam is to preserve the Manipuri folk dance and to inculcate such knowledge to the children.