Chill out: Participants at the Summer Funk programme conducted by SDIPA at Science City

Shiamak Davar, the national award winning choreographer and the founder-director of Shiamak Davar?s Institute of the Performing Arts (SDIPA), played host to the final performance of his students at the ?Summer Funk? on May 9, 2006, at the Science City main auditorium.

For the 500 students, who had undergone a complete ?performing arts experience?, like the excitement of rehearsals, costume trials, team work, discipline and professionalism, at the 12-day SDIPA dance workshop, Nach Baliye, organised in association with Incorporated Business Consultants (IBC) at Bhowanipur College from April 12, it was now show time. Dressed for the occasion, they put up 15 scintillating performances on stage, with their ?dance icon? playing host. These ranged from Bollywood and Hollywood songs, like Dus Bahane, Jhalak, Aisa Jaadu, No Entry, Ek Aajbnabi and Disco 82 among others and showcased a variety of dance forms like jazz, hip hop, rock ?n? roll, Afro-jazz, salsa, Shiamak?s Indo-jazz and Shiamak?s Bollywood jazz.

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Swagata Majumdar, an MA student at Convergence Institute of Media, Management and Information Technology Studies (Commits), Bangalore, won the Ibda?a Media Student Award in the radio feature category at a gala event in Dubai on April 25. Her prize is a one-month internship with the Arabian Radio Network in Dubai. Majumdar was given the award for her radio feature on the trauma of riot victims. ?I chose the subject because this is an issue that needs to be talked about,? she said, ?and I told the story through a filmmaker and a little girl who loses everything in a riot.?

Anjali Muthanna and Vasumita Sridharan were the other Commits students on the shortlist, with entries in the radio feature and print journalism categories respectively.

The fifth annual Ibda?a Awards, named after the Arabic word for creativity and set up by Dubai Media City, received entries from media students all over the world. India, with 19 finalists, topped the shortlist. The 10 categories for this year were print journalism, print advertising, radio feature, television documentary, television advertising, animation, graphic design, analogue photography, digital photography and film feature.

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