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| September 29, 2010 | International folkdance festival begins in Shimla | |
Shimla:A five-day-long international folkdance festival featuring young female dancers began here recently. This is the second time the folkdance festival included international participants. Over 1500 girl students from six countries namely, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and the Philippines, participated
in the 14th All India Women Folk Dance Competition, which began on Tuesday. The
festival has been jointly organized by the State's Department of Language, Art
and Culture and a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), and it was inaugurated
by Himachal Pradesh governor Urmila Singh in Shimla. "This festival creates and
promotes brotherhood amongst our youngsters and gives us a chance to look at each
other's traditions, since everyone cannot go everywhere. You can see that performers
are dressed in such beautiful traditional attire, and their tradition can be seen
in their folk dance, music and clothes," said, Kapoor Bhan, organizer of the festival.
"When people from Himachal will step out and people from other places will come
here to perform, only then can we generate brotherhood and reduce fights and corruption.
On one hand, politicians are corrupting our culture, but on the other hand these
students are not only keeping our culture alive but also teaching us love and
brotherhood," he added. Bhan also said this festival aims at creating awareness
about different cultures and traditions by using the medium of folk dance. "Our
culture is endangered and we should try to show it in front of people since it
is very precious and must be preserved," said, Pallavi, a participant from Darjeeling.
The foreign participants professed themselves happy to perform in Shimla. "We
got a chance to perform our Nepali (Nepalese) culture to promote it here, and
also get learnt some different kind of Indian cultural dances," said Ranju Srestha,
a participant from Nepal. The festival will conclude on October 3.
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