Shadhona, a dance organisation, presented its annual dance scholarship in an award ceremony in Banani centre on Saturday.
This year’s award was bagged by Ariful Iislam Arnob, a student of the organisation and an engineering graduate. The award was handed over by Lubna Marium, the artistic director of Shadhona. Zeenat Islam, the president of SAARC Women’s Association, Dhaka Chapter, among others, were present on the occasion.
Shadhona, one of the pioneering dance centers in the country, initiated the scholarship programme in 2012 with the help of SAARC Women’s Association Bangladesh, which plays the role of a facilitator in the programme.
This is the fourth scholarship given by the organisation so far, the previous scholarships having gone to Abu Nyeem, Tahnun Ahmedi and Hossain Mahabub in 2012, 2013 and 2014 respectively.
This year’s award recipient, Ariful Iislam Arnob, will have a chance to participate in a year-long certificate course on contemporary dance by Rhythmosaic in Kolkata, India.
Following the award handover, there was a dance show in which four dance routines were presented by the four scholarship-recipients individually.
One of the biggest attractions of the evening was an exciting choreographys, named the The Long Road by Abu Nyeem, who prepared it during the Gati Summer Dance Residency earlier this year and had already performed it in Delhi. Later on, the duo Tahnun Ahmedi and Mahabub Hossain performed a spectacular contemporary dance piece.
