nternational Dance Alliance and Padmalaya Centre for Performing Arts, Banglore will be holding Uttsav - dance festival on Nov. 8.

Padmalaya Centre for Performing arts, headed by Padma Murali has been training young artistes in the field of bharathanatyam for the past 20 years.

The International Dance Alliance(IDA), an organization that encourages art and aspiring artistes in Chennai for the last 25 years under the guidance of Ms. Leela Sekhar and has been hosting the annual dance festival from the year 2004.

In this year's festival, five different groups will be performing Bharathanatyam (Muralidaran and group,Chennai) , Mohiniattam (Shruthi and group) , Kuchipudi (Archana Punyesh and group), Tarangam (Sheela Unnikrishnan and group ,Chennai) and Bharathanatyam (Roopa Upadhyaya and group, Madikere) forms.

Smt.Sharada Subramaniam IA&AS, Special Secretary to the Governor of Karnataka will be the chief guest for the occasion.

Padmalaya Centre for Performing Arts will honour the art critic Dr. M. Surya Prasad with the award Kala Rathna during the fest.

Venue: A.D.A Rangamandira, J.C. Road, Bangalore.
At 6 pm
For more details contact : 080 - 2520 2890 or +91 98454 21009.
Email: padmamurali@yahoo.com