NRITYAGEET 33 will be held at the National Cultural Centre (NCC) on Friday, May 4 with over 40 dancers taking to the stage in spectacular costumes and sets presenting dramatic dance sequences in Kathak, Odissi, Bharatnatyam, Chutney, Modern, and Popular styles also adding Indian traditional story telling presentations such as the Ramlila. Performers include young performers drawn from mandirs, secondary schools, National School of Dance, and several dance groups.
This year, the Nadira and Indranie Shah Dance Troupe is celebrating 174 years since the first East Indians arrived aboard the Hesperus and the Whitby and stepped onto the shores of Guyana.
The audience will be treated to newly choreographed kathak dances, a number of fusion dances, folk filmi, chutney and Baratnatyam presented by a young South African medical student currently pursuing her studies in Guyana.