The Aasra Sanskritik Dal from Sirmaur district won the first prize in the state-level folk dance competition that was ...
This is a traditional dance of Sirmaur in which artistes wear specially crafted masks of various animals and costumes for the performance. The masks are crafted from wood, sawdust and kidney bean ...
As part of this initiative, the Language and Culture Department of Himachal Pradesh was set to organising a district-level folk dance competition in Mandi, scheduled for December 17.
Artistes from Himachal Pradesh will perform the dance of the Hati tribal area of Sirmaur district. The Sinhatoo dance, quite popular in the past, is facing extinction, say folk artistes.
In Pahari (hilly) dialect, a lion cub is called Sinhtoo, which is why performers wearing lion masks always take center stage ...