Lai Haraoba
LAI-HARAOBA is one of the most important and indigenous ritual festival in Manipur. It is celebrated to please and propitiate the ancestors through ritualistic dance and music.
Sankirtana
Manipuri Sankirtana is a form of performing art involving ritualistic singing, drumming and dancing and performed in the temples and domestic spaces in Manipur.
Ras Leela
Ras Leelas are dance dramas performed on the full moon night in the temples of Manipur.
The main Ras Leela is the Maharas on the full moon night of Kartik Poornima, Krishna to fulfil a promise, dances with the Gopis. For every Gopi there appears a Krishna and through His maya He dances with each of them in the ecstatic dance of union.
Thang Ta
The long period of independence which the Manipuris sustained in the course of their history was due to their combat strategies and warrior skills embodied through the glorious martial tradition of “Huyen Lallong”, now popularly known as ‘Thang-Ta’.
The tradition and
the responsibility
and finally the sadhana and the fulfillment
it brings
S Karuna Devi
S Karuna Devi is the head of Lai Haraoba & Ras Leela Department. She has been awarded Grade "A" in Manipuri Dance by the Central Audition Board Prasar Bharati, New Delhi and she has also received Usatad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar Award 2017 from Sangeet Natak Academy New Delhi. She has also received Scholarship and Junior Fellowship from Minstry Of Culture, New Delhi and she is an M Mus (first class first) in Manipuri Dance from Visva Bharati Shantiniketan.
W Surajkumar &
K Ratan Singh
K Ratan Singh and W Surajkumar create heart-touching rhythms with Pung (drum) and other traditional Manipuri instruments. A part of Anjika since 2003, they have participated in many significant festivals and programmes with the troupe, crisscrossing India and the globe. At present both of them are Head of the Sankirtana Department.
Th Imocha Singh
Thokchom Imocha Singh is the Head of Anjika’s Thang-Ta (Manipuri Martial Arts) Department. A striking and dynamic performer, he is the recipient of the prestigious Ustad Bismilla Khan Yuva Puruskar Award 2006 from Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi India.