Mizoram

Cheraw, Mizoram's bamboo dance, uses clashing bamboo poles as both percussion and obstacle — dancers step between closing poles in time with the beat, a skill practiced from childhood rather than performed once and forgotten.

Puan weaving, the state's signature handloom textile, marks clan and occasion through pattern, and Chapchar Kut, the spring festival that follows jhum cultivation's clearing season, is when both the dance and the cloth are most visible together.