200 foreign dancers to take part in international fest in Madhya Pradesh

Bhopal: More than 200 foreign dancers have arrived in Madhya Pradesh to take part in a four-day international festival beginning in Gwalior district on Thursday.

Besides them, participants from over half a dozen states in the country will also showcase their skills at the annual international dance festival christened “Udbhav Utsav”.

“More than 200 artists from Slovakia, Bulgaria, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Iran, South Korea, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have reached Gwalior to take part in the 14th edition of the international festival,” Udbhav Sports and Culture Association (USCA) president Keshav Pandey told a news agency over phone.

Besides foreigners, he said, 40 dance troupes from seven states, including Madhya Pradesh, are taking part in the event.

In all, 700 dancers are expected to showcase their talents in groups at the festival being sponsored by the Greenwood Public School, he added.

USCA secretary Deepak Tomar said the festival would be held at three venues – the Indian Institute of Travel Tour Management (IITTM), the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (ABV- IIITM) and the Greenwoods Public School campus – on different days.