THE recent National Harmony Talent Festival 2011 has given the city pride and prestige. From over 6500 participants from over 22 states, Pune's Shilpa Danave shone bright. Director of the Margam Dance Academy, Danave won the Nritya Sadhane Award and 124 students of her academy won other prizes.

The news article reports that over 5000 dancers participated in a grand dance event in Pune, setting a new world record for the largest synchronized traditional dance performance. The event showcased cultural unity and vibrant traditional attire.

23 students of Margam Dance Academy in Bibwewadi have successfully completed 'Arangetram'. Arangetram is considered an important stage in the classical dance curriculum, which gives students the official permission to perform classical dance on a professional stage.

No art has a language, region, caste or religion. Art is something beyond caste and religion. Art is the language of art, asserted famous actress Amrita Subhash.

Pune's Margam Dance Academy has achieved great success in the National Dance Competition held in Hyderabad. The academy also won first place in the group dance category of the competition. The director of the academy, Shilpa Danve - Turile, was honored with the 'Nrityabhushan' award for her contribution to the field of dance.

The second day of the Indradhanushya Youth Festival was marked by a quality one-act play, a great elocution competition, whistles, applause and hip-hip hurrah, with the youth enthusiastically performing to the tune of Western music. The festival took on a truly cultural colour on Friday. On this occasion, the university's Language Bhavan, Humanities Hall, Folk Art Centre, and Music Department were transformed into a youth fair.

The first day of the Indradhanushya Youth Festival began with a smooth singing competition in the morning. In this, various innovations in Western singing styles were seen from the participating teams of various universities. Friday passed in an enthusiastic atmosphere.

On the occasion of International Dance Day, more than five hundred artists came together to perform the maximum number of dance forms at the same time, creating a world record. Dance Academy and Margam Dance Academy from Pune created this history at Season Mall in Hadapsar.

The packed auditorium of the Folk Art Center at Shivaji University applause and whistles and creative artists conveying their theme to the audience through dance music, facial expressions, and costumes were the atmosphere seen in the creative dance program held today. The 'Indradhanushya' festival, which has been exploding with color, has now come into its own.

Pune's Margam Dance Academy won the National Dance Competition organized by the Indian Art and Cultural Society (IACS). More than 500 artists from twenty different states participated in this competition.

The entire auditorium was packed even before the Shivaji program started, presenting issues like 'female foeticide', 'pollution' and others, by achieving a unique combination of music and dance. Some presented problems through creative dance performances, while others expressed their creativity through different dance performances.

The All India Cultural Association, Pune and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have been organizing the 'National Harmony 2011' festival in Pune since last Saturday. This festival, organized at the all-India level, presents the innovations of multilingual theatre, dance, singing and musical instruments.