![]() ![]() A Guinness World Record was made in 2010, when a large number of cheraw dancers danced together at the same time. Similar dances are found in the Far East and in the Philippines.In the Philippines they have a similar dance called Tinikling that also uses bamboo sticks. It is the most famous and beautiful dance in Mizoram, and is the center of attraction during festive occasions. The bamboos rhythmically while groups of female dancers dance in intricate steps between the beating bamboos. Chapchar Kut festival is celebrated during March after completion of their most arduous task of Jhum operation i.e., jungle-clearing (clearing of the remnants of burning).Ĭheraw dance is a traditional cultural dance performed in Mizoram, India, consisting of mostly six to eight people holding pairs of bamboo staves on another horizontally placed bamboo on the ground. And the good news is the sense of practice which has carry forwarded the Cheraw dance form with itself with pride and integrity.Chapchar Kut cheraw dance in Mizoram. And the movements imitate nature – birds flying, trees swaying, rice paddy blooming out to allure the world. The Cheraw dance form gives you a sense of merry making like the merry making Christmas without much decoration but rustic like Christmas in a mountain village but having the same spirit. At times, they break the structure to form strong doublets and with their hands clap one another almost like the Gujrati dandiya folk form. ![]() Again dressed in plantain clothes, their head like mud out of which grows the beautiful red flowers, they dance mostly independent with a sense of the collective. Skipping their way such that it synchronizes with the opening and closing of the bamboo sticks. ![]() Their responsibility is to control the opening and the closing of the bamboo sticks. Men stoops wearing their simple single piece around their waist and a shirt and perhaps a broadened belt like string to hold the two together, with a bandana in their forehead. ![]()
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