ANJIKA SOCIETY FOR MANIPURI DANCE AND MOVEMENT THERAPY Key Issues and
Operational Areas, Major Activiities & Achivements
Operational Districts: Imphal East, Imphal West,Murshidabad , North Twenty Four Parganas, South Twenty Four Parganas, Kolkata
Operational States: MANIPUR, WEST BENGAL
AchieveMents: ANJIKA Centre for Manipuri Dance & Movement Therapy was established in 1995 under the guidance of MK Binodini Devi and Pandit N. Khelchandra Singh.
It provides a complete education in the Manipuri dance form-one of the eastern Indiaââ¬â¢s two great classical dance forms. It includes skill and the technique, the tradition and the responsibility and finally the sadhana and the fulfillment it brings. Through Anjika, Priti Patel is making a lifetime commitment to pass on to the new generations of dancers the comprehensive regine and techniques of training developed by the great Gurusââ¬â¢ viz. Lt.Guru Bipin Singh and Lt.Ojha Th. Babu Singh, as well as the cull wisdom of acknowledged masters such as the Lt. Ojha Khetritombi Devi, Lt.Ojha Kelchandra Singh, Lt. Ojha Surchand Sharma and Lt. Ojha Kumar Maibi. As a professional Danseuse, Miss Patel is probably exceptional in the comprehensiveness of her approach; she has undergone training even in stage lighting; from the renowned designer Lt.Shri. Tapas Sen.
Anjika has a Governing Body in Kolkata whose names are given in the Constitution of Board of Management. Beside we also have a Panel of Advisors in Imphal whose name are given below :
1. Ojha Samarendra Singh
2. Ayega Aribam Shyam Sharma
3. Makhonmoni Singh
4. Kishorjit Singh
5. Somi Roy
Having received formal training in expressive Therapy at Lesley College, Boston, USA. Miss Patel has had long opportunity to apply her knowledge in her own work among children with celebral palsy. Her curriculum is based on a wonderful efficacy and relevance of Manipuri dance. With its gentle swaying rhythms and flowing movements, the Manipur dance form not only helps the disadvantaged child to gain mastery of his or her limbs, but to stimulate, absorb and uplift the spirit; build confidence and hope in a young minds imprisioned by disobedient bodies.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF ANJIKA
1. To build an Institution catering to all the aspects of Manipuri Dance and Culture.
2. To run an integrated learning programme for the disabled using dance as Therapy.
3. To collect and record the works of existing eminent Gurus and thereby from a Research and an Archive Wing.
4. To facilitate the training in Manipur for students from other parts of India and abroad.
5. To conduct Workshops, Lecture Demonstrations and Seminars by renowned artists of other dance forms along with Manipuri to enable the students of Anjika as well as the other Institutions to get a complete training and appreciate the different dance styles of India.
