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A large number of dance artistes and connoisseurs congregated at the compound of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in the evening of a three-day dance extravaganza on Sunday.
   Adviser for cultural affairs ministry Rasheda K Chowdhury inaugurated the festival as chief guest.
   Jointly organised by the Bangladesh Dance Artistes’ Association and Bangladesh Shilapakala Academy, the festival includes dance competitions, dance fair, dance performances, discussions, seminar and rally.
   The inaugural function featured discussion, award-giving ceremony and dance performances by the local and foreign dance artistes.
   The organisers arranged a nearly month long competition for the dancers across the country. In the final round of the competition, held on Sunday, Tahmina Anwar Anika of Dhaka won first prize in section of kattak dance. Chandrima Das Proma of Sylhet and Farhin Tamanna Shrabanti of Khulna won second and third prizes respectively.
   Marzana Munmun of Dhaka and Prema Das Gupta of Chittagong won first and second prizes in Odissi dance category.
   Zarin Tasnim of Dhaka and L Leikon Devi of Sylhet jointly won first prize in Manipuri dance while Sonia Parvin of Khulna won the third prize.
   In Bharatnatyam, Deep Narayan Roy of Chittagong, Asif Mohammad Mosaddek of Sylhet and Sarma Quraishi of Dhaka won first, second and third prizes respectively.
   Ranabir Saha of Dhaka won the first prize in the creative dance category while Deepika Talukdar of Sylhet and Laila Farha of Khulna won second and third prizes respectively.
   Asif Mohammad Mosaddek of Sylhet also won the first prize in folk dance while Ranabir Saha of Dhaka and Deep Narayan Roy of Chittagong won second and third prizes respectively.
   The award-giving ceremony was followed by the dance performance of autistic children.
   Winners of the competition, Manipuri cultural troupe, artistes of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy and Bangladesh Dance Artistes’ Association, and the famous Mohiniattam dancer Pallavi Krishnan performed at the programme. A group of Bangladeshi dancers presented Chinese lion dance at function.
   The autistic children, Pallavi Krishnan and dancers of lion dance delighted the audience by their respective performances.

Music Planet School began its journey through a function at the Spectra Convention Centre in the city on Saturday.
   Sixty students of the school sang patriotic songs, Tagore songs, modern songs, Indian classical songs, and popular English songs on the occasion.
   Turkey ambassador Farit Ergin inaugurated the ceremony as chief guest while musician Naquib Khan attended the session as special guest.
   The show began with the performance of a toddler Samia who danced with the song Momochitte.
   Prashantha, Shaneela, Shazina and Jesmin also sang in the programme, assisted by Glun Sunny on the drums, Saad Uddin on guitar and Salehin on the violin.
   ‘Eight teachers are working here and we like to teach the students classical songs as well as modern songs,’ said the director of Music Planet School Saifuddin Saki.
   ‘After the elementary training, we will pick up a vocalist, a guitarist, a drummer to make a band,’ said Faruq Wahid, an adviser and a violin teacher of this school.