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| Residents celebrate the Chapchar Kut in Aizawl on Thursday. Picture by Eastern Projections |
Silchar, March 11: Mizoram is all set to showcase its famous bamboo dance — cheraw — to the world with a world record in mind.
Come tomorrow and around 11,000 dancers will match steps to the beat of local instruments at the Assam Rifles ground in Aizawl, hoping to enter the Guinness Book of World Records.
The Mizoram government is organising the dance, which will be held under the supervision of British national Lucia Sinigalie, an adjudicator from the Guinness.
There is in the air an euphoric feeling of expectancy, joy and optimism on the eve of the mega event.
According to the state’s art and culture minister, P.C. Zoramsangliana, at least 11,000 dancers from nearly 671 troupes, will be hopping on bamboo stilts at the ground and also along a road stretching between the ground to Chandmari Road via Burrabazar and Zarkawt, a distance of about 2km.
The event will begin at 10am and continue till 2pm.
A chopper, to be hired by the Mizoram government, will hover in the sky to glide along the bamboo dance route to record the show.
These roads would be jam packed with the dancers dressed in their exotic best.
The cheraw dance is the harbinger of the Chapchar Kut festival of the Mizos, which marks the end of winter and advent of summer.
As a dance form the cheraw symbolises the excellence, strength, skill and aspiration.