Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, is to "organise the Mega Bihu dance performance at a single venue...
Digital Desk: The Assam government has prepared a performance around the folk dance on April 14, during the start of the Bohag Bihu festival with 11,140 artists from all districts of the state will perform together at Guwahati's Sarusajai Stadium in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The purpose, according to Himanta Biswa Sarma, is to "organise the largest Bihu dance performance at a single venue and make it into the Guinness Book of World Records in the folk-dancing category."
Reportedly, the performance will last approximately 15 minutes. It is to be mentioned that 70% of the artists would be women, 30% men, and would comprise singers and players of traditional instruments like dhol, taal, gogona, toka, pepa, and xutuli. The performers were to be picked from the state's 31 districts, with numbers ranging from 1,400 in Dibrugarh to only 20 in South Salmara. Women aged 15-35 and men aged 15-55 were encouraged to register for auditions online, with district governments in charge of the selection.
Maestro of Bihu, Ranjit Gogoi, has been hired to choreograph the performance.
As said by historian Ankur Tamuli Phukan, who has conducted significant research on Bihu, a standard Bihu dance is a recent concept that began to take shape during the Assam Agitation in the early 1980s.
The majority of the artists will arrive in Guwahati on the night of April 10, and the performance will be practised from the 11th to the 13th. Women would be housed in subsidised hotels, while men will be housed in school and college hostels, community halls, and institution-based halls, according to Kamrup Metro DC Pallav Gopal Jha. The expenses are said to be huge, with each artist receiving a stipend of Rs 10,500, the cost of merely paying the performers amounts to Rs 11.69 crore.
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