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Meitei Sankirtan (Meitei: Meitei Nat Sankirtan), also known as Meitei Sankirtana (Meitei: Meitei Nat Sankirtana) or Manipuri Sankirtan (Meitei: Nat Sonkirton) or Manipuri Sankirtana (Meitei: Nat Sonkirton), is a Meitei cultural form of performing art involving ritual singing, drumming and dancing performed in the temples and domestic spaces in Manipur in India.
The Manipuri dance comes in two categories - tandav (vigorous dance for the dancer who plays Krishna) and lasya (delicate [54] dance for the dancers who play Radha and Gopis). [55] [56] The Manipuri Raas Leela dance style embodies dreamy wavelike movements where one movement dissolves into another like the waves of an ocean.
Meitei Sankirtana (under the name of "Sankirtana, ritual singing, drumming and dancing of Manipur"), one of the most remarkable cultural heritage of the Meitei civilization, [10] [11] [12] was formally recognized as a UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage, declared in the eighth session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee in Baku, Azerbaijan, in December 2013.
Manipuri dance is a religious art and its aim is the expression of spiritual values. Aspects of this performance art is celebrated during festivals and major rites of passage such as weddings among the Manipuri people, particularly in the ethnic majority of Meitei people. [3] [6] There are numerous dance forms of Manipur, comprising both ...
The Manipuri dance is categorized as either "Tandava" (vigorous, usually go with Shiva, Shakti or Krishna as warrior-savior themed plays) or lasya (delicate, [22] usually go with love stories of Radha and Krishna). [23] [24] In the Krishna Tandava in Raslila performance of Manipuri dance is graceful yet with swift movement and acrobatic ...
Manipuri Raas Leela. Manipuri Raas Leela dance is a unique form of dance drama which has its origin in Manipur, a state in northeastern India bordering with Myanmar (Burma). [95] [96] It is particularly known for its Hindu Vaishnavism themes, and performances of love-inspired dance drama of Radha-Krishna called Ras Lila.
Krishna and Radha dancing the rasalila, a 19th-century painting, Rajasthan. The Raslila (Sanskrit: रासलीला, romanized: Rāsalīlā), [1] [2] also rendered the Rasalila or the Ras dance, is part of a traditional story described in Hindu texts such as the Bhagavata Purana and Gita Govinda, where Krishna dances with Radha and the gopis of Braj.
The manipuri rasa-lila dance is evolved from dances of lai haraoba performed by maiba and maibi, priests and priestesses of traditional meitei religious beliefs before Vaishnavism in Manipur. Rasa-lila and Manipuri Sankirtana or Nata Sankirtana which is also a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, became the important features of day ...