Celebrate Diwali at Expo 2020 through a dance, drums and music extravaganza from the North, South, East and West of India. Actress Sadhana Lakshmi along with Dubai's best Indian dance and music schools put on a wonderful performance.

Dance, Drums and Diwali

Diwali

A wonderful performance by actress Sadhana Lakshmi along with Dubai's best Indian dance and music schools.

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With its enormous population and diversity of ancient traditions, India is a place of incredible richness and complexity. The India Pavilion offers a new take on the country that goes beyond its famed culture and stunning landscapes to show a rising economic power that is very much open for business. The pavilion focuses on “New India”, an emerging global hub for innovation, inspiration and investment. Its wide variety of exhibits feature not just the food, tea and Bollywood entertainment that so many know and love, but also the country’s modern-day advancements in technology, aerospace, manufacturing and more.


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The India pavilion is a four-level rectangular structure, covered on its upper three floors with rotating tiles in hues of red, orange, and white. 

This kinetic exterior surface also serves as a screen for projected images, such as the face of Mahatma Gandhi. The bottom level features a plate-glass façade. 

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India: Dance, Drums and Diwali with Sadhana Lakshmi

A mesmerising show of Colombian dance, music and theatre featuring stunning choreography and traditional sounds. Renowned for its rich, vibrant culture, this show at Dubai Millennium Amphitheatre showcases Colombia's incredible art, dance, and music scenes. 

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Take in a mesmerising show of Colombian dance, music and theatre.

The Dubai Millennium Amphitheatre is a performance space hosting cultural performances and live music for seated crowds, located in Al Forsan Park. The venue’s design features a model of two Ghaf trees that intertwine above the centre of the stage. 

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Colombia Pavilion

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From the streets of Bogotá and beyond, the entire world dances to the beats of Colombian music stars like Shakira and J Balvin. At the lively Colombia Pavilion, you’ll see — and most importantly, hear — how this infectious rhythm connects the nation to a thriving future of culture, innovation and urban growth.

The pavilion’s airy, free-ranging design represents Colombia itself, open and unbounded. In and around its four light-filled floors, an abundance of rhythmic attractions awaits: interactive instruments that let you play along with the music, a giant digital jukebox, holographic light shows and more.


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The Colombia pavilion’s airy, playful design looks more like a three-dimensional checkerboard than a traditional building. The structure trades typical walls for a rectangular grid of colossal white metal beams and transparent panels and floors, which meet at varying levels to create a four-story tower of platforms, open air plazas, and spacious rooms that peek out in unexpected directions. 


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Colombia: Travesia Colombia

Dancers of Damelahamid are an Indigenous performing arts company with strong cultural traditions from their Gitxsan and Cree cultural background. These masked dancers have produced several theatre-based productions, combining dramatic dance, captivating narrative, intricately carved masks and elaborate regalia. A performance not to be missed!

A dramatic dance performance not to be missed

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A compelling, masked dance performance from Canadian Indigenous performing arts company Dancers of Damelahamid. 

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With a striking design inspired by fossilised sand dunes, Jubilee Stage is an open-air festival stage. Located in Jubilee Park, it hosts performances and large concerts.

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From its people to its sweeping terrain, Canada is a nation of astounding diversity. With its circular design based on the drum, an instrument found across all the world’s cultures, the Canada Pavilion at Expo 2020 celebrates the unity of its diverse inhabitants, as well as their bright shared future.

From outside, the pavilion impresses with its encircling wooden lattice, which evokes Canada’s natural landscapes while paying homage to the geometry of Islamic mashrabiya screens. But the wonder truly begins within, as an immersive theatre experience takes you on a stirring tour of Canada’s land, peoples and technological innovations.


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Celebration of Canada’s diverse people and landscapes

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The Canada Pavilion evokes the shape of a drum for its commanding, elegant Expo pavilion. Hundreds of pieces of Canadian lumber form a round lattice of diamond-like shapes that pays homage to the captivating geometry of Arabic mashrabiya screens. The massive disc seems to hover weightless over the pavilion’s central core, which is also decorated with wood.

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Canada: Dancers of Damelahamid

The New Zealand Kapa Haka or traditional Māori performing arts, forms a powerful and highly visual part of the New Zealand cultural experience. Kapa haka literally means to form a line (kapa) and dance (haka). Come and experience an authentic performance!

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An authentic traditional dance from New Zealand, known as the Kapa Haka.

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New Zealand Pavilion

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The Whanganui River is so important to New Zealand’s Maori people that in 2017, it was granted a special legal identity, giving it the rights of a citizen. Now, the New Zealand Pavilion offers a sweeping cultural tour narrated by the Whanganui River itself.

With a design inspired by the Maori tradition of hand-crafting containers to safeguard items of value, the pavilion leads you on a journey of conservation where the greatest treasure to be protected is our natural world. Immerse yourself in the river’s story, deepen the experience with the pavilion’s web-based app, and journey through a 10-metre-high “vertical river” of water droplets.


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The New Zealand Pavilion features a tall box clad in titanic wavy panels of chainmail-like architectural mesh called Kaynemaile. Its flexible façade pulses to evoke a living building and sits on a base crafted from New Zealand Abodo eco-timber. The ground floor’s wooden exterior lends a warm feel to the modernist design, welcoming visitors through a small gap beneath the mammoth Kaynemaile panels.

Dance, Drums and Diwali

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