Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) organised ‘Braj Rang’, at Chairavati Open air Auditorium on Tuesday. ‘Braj Rang’, is a programme inspired from ‘Holi’ celebration of Braj region of Mathura.
A team of Indian Performing Art and Craft, Mathura performed the Holi songs and dances of Braj region.
The programme started with ‘Aarti’ on song ‘charo dhaam se nirala braj dhaam kii darshan karloji’. After the inaugural performances ‘Deepak Nritya’ was performed on song ‘kaise chakkar chalayi re shyam tero ungli ne’.
Deepak dance is form of dance in which artists dance with plates of earthen lamp on their head, hands and foot. The next performance was enthralling ‘Mayur dance’ where artists displays the story of birth of Radha.
In this dance, female dancers put plates of 108 earthen lamps and danced on song ‘Barsane ki mor kutiya pe mor braj aayore rasiya’. A total of seven songs and dances were performed. The last performance of the night was the famous ‘laatthmaar & holi with flowers’ performed on the song ‘fhaag khelne barsaane aaye hai natwar nand kishore’.
Meanwhile, A national seminar on ‘Official language Implementation: Problems and solutions’ commenced in Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya on Tuesday.
The seminar was inaugurated with lighting the lamp by Chief Guest of the seminar will be VP Gaur Director (Official language, Union Ministry of Culture, New Delhi), Mahipal Singh, Sadhna Tripathi (Assistant director, Official language, Ministry of Home Affairs), Savita Dixit (Professor, MANIT) and Arun Kumar Shrivastava, Director, IGRMS. A special exhibition of books was also inaugurated on this occasion.