Seychelles India Day: Indian artists thrill crowd with rhythmic performances |17 October 2016

A large crowd turned up at Stad Popiler on Saturday evening for a grand musical show where they were thrilled by rhythmic and colourful performances from well-known Indian artists.

Although the Seychellois public had come down in great numbers to discover what was to be Indian folklore as well as authentic pop music, most of the spectators were Seychellois of Indian origin as well as Indian nationals working in Seychelles: testimony once more of how much they value their culture.

From the stage, although the artists offered mainly modern dances and music, it was evident that they have managed to keep traditional Indian music as the basic of their art.

The highlight of the evening which forced the spectators on their feet and dance in front of the stage was not music, but rather dances. This was in the form of rhythmic and spectacular performances from the RAACK Academy of Dance from Chennai. The troupe of young athletic dancers is known to have performed more than 5,000 times and has trained more than 30,000 Indian dancers!

Other performers included the Anveshana School of performing Arts, Sunidhi Chauhan which has the good reputation of being the “liveliest voice in Bollywood”, Narayan Udit who has in his repertoire more than 25,000 songs and has won a multitude of music and film awards, as well as beautiful singer, actress and model Shibani Dandekar.