Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 14:
For the first time, the Forum for Laboratory Theatres of Manipur in collaboration with the Directorate of Art and Culture, Government of Manipur would be organising a fortnight long National Interdisciplinary Performance Workshop for Young female dancers of the North East India at Imphal from December 16 to 29.The workshop is to be sponsored by the North Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre, Dimapur.
Addressing a press conference at Manipur Press Club here today in connection with the proposed workshop, president of Forum for Laboratory Theatres Dr Lokendra Arambam said that the objective of the workshop is first to inculcate amongst young female dancers of the North East India the values and principles of contemporary dance art under the guidance of the internationally acclaimed dancer Astab Deboo for a week.
Dr Arambam, under whose supervision the whole project would be carried out, said that the experiences of the exercise shall be utilised to synthesize with the other performance principles of contemporary theatre, ritual, poetry, music, visual arts, films and human rights experiences to introduce the novel performance form of the dance-theatre in the North East.
During the workshop, experienced local resource persons would interact with the participants which would comprise of 13 artistes from Manipur and 7 other artistes from other North Eastern States like Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Nagaland.
The workshop shall also have film study session with Biren Das, a resource person from Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata.
The concern for this interdisciplinary performance is to empower women to understand conflict, respect human rights and enable artistes to intervene in social and political issues of the day, Dr Arambam added.