Manipuri Dance: Artists & Performers

The most well known performers and teachers are the (late) Guru Bipin Singh, his wife Kalabati Devi and Guru Singhajeet and his wife Charusheela. Guru Nileshwar Mukharjeee from Bangladesh and Guru Senarik Rajkumar from India are well known to manipuri society as with them the new department of Manipuri Dance was created in the Shantiniketan in the early thirties. The present noted Manipuri dancers of India and Bangladesh, as well as international fame are Hanjaba Guru Bipin Singha, Guru Chandrakanta Singha - Nartanachrya, Guru Nilmadhab Mukharjee, Guru Haricharan singha, Bibhaboti Devi, Kalabati Devi etc. Most of them have their dancing tours on the manipuri to England, America, Rassia, Australia, Japan, Germany, Italy, France, Hongkong, Thailand, Bhutan, Srilanka etc. and earned great name and fame for their style. Among Non-Manipuri dancers, the names of Preeti Patel, Sruti Banerjee, Tamanna Rahman.In Bombay the famous performers and teachers are the Jhaveri sisters - Nayana,Suverna, Darshana and Ranjana Jahveri. They continue this tradition at their institution 'Manipuri Nartanalaya'.