Cheraw (dance)

Cheraw dance
Mizo girls performing the Cheraw dance
GenreFolk dance
OriginIndia
Chapchar Kut Cheraw dance in Mizoram.

Cheraw dance is a traditional bamboo dance performed by the Mizo people of Mizoram, India, consisting of mostly six to eight people holding pairs of bamboo staves on another horizontally placed bamboo on the ground. The male performers then clap the bamboos rhythmically while groups of female dancers dance in intricate steps between the beating bamboo.