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10th Int’l Children’s Festival of Performing Arts

Kavita, New Delhi
The 10th International Children's Festival of Performing Arts kickstarted with a colourful inaugural ceremony on the afternoon of December 16. The evening belonged to Finland and Bangladesh which gave the huge audiencemostly schoolchildren a delightful view of their cultures. Youth from countries as diverse as Indonesia. Germany. Iran, Israel, Mandwa. india, Latvia, Romania and Russia watched in rapt attention as the performers went through their paces.
Finland came up first with Youth Theatre FloppiFRaasi's presentation 'Dawn Break"an amazing melange of drama, song and danceincluding Bollywood numbers and concluding
with some peppy Bhangra dances from Punjab . The basic theme was the battle between good and evil. "Dawn Breaks" did some time travelbetween a dance school where teenagers are practising popular Bollywood dances even as quarrels and jealousy wreck their relationships. Cut to an ancient time with the same batde in an poetic Finnish storytelling tradition; the Evil Lady of the Forest has claimed many victims, until she is stopped in her tracks by the gentle Fairy of the Fields. The beautiful songs and the billowing red skirts of the Fairy which laid cover on the victims' and revived them had the audience clapping all the way and asking for more.
Finland was followed up by Bangladesh. The Nrityanchal group
presented "Shambhashan" (Addressing). The folk dance drama is a composition that interweaves a variety of Bangladesh folk dances. The drama gave a colourful glimpse of the country's simple rural lifestyleBaul songs (folk songs), the rhythm of Ektara, the agonised prayers for rain when faced with the spectre of drought, the alternately mournful and joyous strains of the shehnai during village wedding ceremonies and the rejoicing of the Nobanno (harvesting festival). The 11-member group, led by Mohammad Abul Hasan Topon, comprised the little four- year- old Priyanka and went up to 20-year-old dancers.
Befittingly the chief guest of the evening was the High Commissioner of Bangladesh, Tariq Ahmad Karim. In
his words, "We need to focus on what brings us together and we will have a much better world.”
Most of die members of the audience were hard put to decide which of the two programmes they most enjoyed. As the Indonesian group of schoolchildren put it, the Finnish performance was “dramatic”, while the Bangladeshi folk dance drama was "colourful''.
The three-day-festival will go a long way in forging enduring relationships between the children of 30 countries. They will demonstrate that it is possible to transcend the barriers of geography and language through cultureand that children can act as true ambassadors of their nations at a time when the adults have wrought havoc on the planet.