IMPHAL, May 6: In a press release, the Jawaharlal Nehru Dance Academy Repertory’s ‘Bidai Abhisap’ will be shown in Dhaka on May 8 at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on the occasion of the 150th Birth Anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranth Tagore. It is sponsored by the Sangeet Natak Academy, New Delhi under Indo-Bangladesh Cultural Exchange Programme. The much appreciated dance-drama is based on Tagore’s poem of the same title and translated in Manipuri by the renowned theatre-director, Ratan Thiyam, choreographed by N.Amusana Devi, Sr.Production Asst.
The show in Dhaka will be the seventh show including two shows in Santiniketan and Kolkata, it further added. It further mentions that a five member team of Pung Cholom artists will depart for Ethiopia on May 13.
