The four day long Ocean Dance Festival 2019 kicked off in Cox Bazar of Bangladesh on Friday. State minister of cultural affairs KM Khalid inaugurated the festival as the chief guest last evening. Ocean Dance Festival is the largest international dance festival of Bangladesh in which more than 200 dancers, choreographers and scholars from 15 countries are participating.
The theme of this year’s festival is ‘Bridging the distance’ or Durotter Shetubandhan. The dances performed at the event will show the idea of bridging the cultural and economic distances.
The festival is being organised by the Nrityajog which is the Bangladesh wing of World Dance Alliance (WDA). The festival aims to expand cultural tourism in Bangladesh. It also features seminars and discussion apart from the dance performances by the artists.
On the opening day of the festival Zuairiyah Mouli from Bangladesh performed Ardhanarishwara. Ananya Dance Theatre troupe from USA put up a powerful performance named Trikone-Connectivity. Dance troupes from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Canada, Lithuania, India and Bangladesh also performed on the inaugural day of the festival at Cox Bazar.