25 states take part in National Tribal Dance Festival to be held in Raipur

Chhattisgarh is going to hold its first National Tribal Dance Festival in state capital Raipur between December 27 to 29. All the states and neighbouring countries are being invited to this festival. It is expected that around 2,500 dancers will perform at the event.

Raipur: Chhattisgarh is going to host a three-day 'National Tribal Dance Festival 2019' at the Science College ground in Raipur from Friday i.e., from Dec 27 to Dec 29, wherein over 1,350 artistes from 24 states in India and six other countries are expected to take part.

Tribal artists includes parcipants from Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Assam, Sikkim, Manipur, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Ladakh, Kerala, Andaman-Nicobar, Odisha, West Bengal, Gujarat, and Jammu and Kashmir.

National Tribal Dance Festival to be held in Raipur from December 27, 24 states to perform

It will be the first time after the inception of the state that a mega event is going to be held in Chhattisgarh to preserve and promote tribal folk art.

The Chief Secretary on behalf of Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has invited Governor of Chattisgarh Anusuiya Uikey to be the Chief Guest of the event.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi will be the chief guest at the inaugural function of the event at 10 am on Friday, while Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel will preside over the occasion.

Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, Deputy leader Anand Sharma, Rajya Sabha MP Ahmed Patel, AICC General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and several other senior party leaders would be present on the occasion as special guests.

The venue of the dance fest has the capacity to accommodate nearly 4,000 people and it will have a food zone, book exhibition, stalls of forest produce, industrial promotion stalls, exhibition related to Chhattisgarh's history, tourism, culture and cuisine.

The dance competition will be based on four themes - dance during weddings or other auspicious occasions, dance during harvest and agricultural-related festivals, dance during traditional festivals and rituals and the last category is other folk and classical dance forms.

Around 39 tribal troupes will be making a presentation in these four different categories covering around 43 dance styles.