The Bihu dance is performed in the Bihu festival, celebrated for the arrival of spring in the Assamese New Year. The people of Assam enjoy this festival with a lot of pomp and show. This is an extremely energetic, fast & an eye-catching dance performance with the rhythmic exuberance of Bihu. Young boys perform the Bihu dances and the girls characterize it by brisk stepping, flinging and movements of hands, stylish footwork and swaying of hips, representing youthful passion & reproductive urge.

Bihu dance is performed during the seedtime and also during the season of marriage. The dance is a part of the Bihu festival that starts in mid-April, when harvesting work of farming is over. In essence, the Bihu dance is a perfect expression of feelings of youth and energy.

The dance is performed in an open space during daytime but there is a clear distinction of separate sexes. The youths perform this dance accompanied by songs of erotic sentiment, loud beating of the Dhol, soft strains of Pepa made from the buffalo horns and manjira, tokka (bamboo clappers) and many more indigenous musical instruments. Sometimes in between, the performers sometimes sing with dances. In a course of dancing, the dancers commonly form a circle or parallel rows. The dance has been noted for maintaining authenticity and at the same time displaying the traditional Assamese handlooms and handicrafts in their glory and beauty by the dancers.