The inaugural Short+Sweet Bollywood Festival concluded in colourful style in front of a full Factory Fusebox Theatre in Marrickville recently.
Swastik Institute of Dance (Parramatta) scooped the pool of major prizes including Best Overall Production and the People’s Choice (audience vote) awards.
Monsuun Dance (North Sydney) won themost Innovative Style awardand the Best Female Dancer was awarded to Shabnam Tavakol There was a tie between Akash Arora (Homebush West) and Ajesh Sharma (Ingle burn) for the Best Male Dancer award.
Best New Talent winners were John Bosco (a wonderful contemporary hip-hop Bolly blend) and Smritie Bhardwaj (Merrylands).
Sumati Lekhi of Swastik Institute of Dance (Harris Park) bagged the Best Choreographer award.
In the youth division of the show called “Fast+Fresh”, Shaimak Show Kids won both the judges’ and the people’s choice awards with Raina Jain coming 2nd and Pallavi Kumar and Tanvi Kumar coming 3rd respectively.
Meenaxi’s dance school was very close to winning.
Festival coordinator Aishveryaa Nidhi (St George) praised the standard of performers and congratulated all participants, not only the winners. “This has been an outstanding success and will return even bigger and better next year,” she said.
Among the judges and presenters were Indian Consul General SunjaySudhir, Raj Suriand Anupam Sharma.
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