World Dance commemoration

Priyanka KURUGALA

The commemoration festival to mark World Dance Day will be held on April 29 at the John De Silva Memorial Theatre under the patronage of the Culture and Arts Affairs Minister T.B. Ekanayake, a Cultural Affairs Ministry spokesman said.

Prof Mudiyanse Dissanayake and Prof Tissa Kariyawasam will deliver two special lectures to commemorate this occasion. A photographic exhibition and a foreign ballet dance film will also be held.

Four artists who rendered their services to the country, M.P. Ganithasara in the field of up-country traditional dance, A.D. Weerasingha in the field of low-country traditional dance, P.M. Babanis in Sabaragamuwa traditional dance and Pathmini Selvendran in Baratha traditional dance will be conferred the Narthanabhimani Award at this festival.

This festival is jointly organized by the Cultural Affairs Department and the State Dance and the Oriental Ballet Dance Panel of the Sri Lanka Arts Council, under the direction of the Culture and the Arts Affairs Ministry, the spokesman said.