By IANS
Brussels : At the opening of the 23rd Milan Festival at The Hague, Vedajoyti Ozah, a young dancer from Assam, performed the Sattriya dance in the first such recital in the Netherlands.
Hague Mayor Wim Deetman inaugurated the festival and Indian Ambassador to Belgium Neelam Sabharwal was the guest of honour, Inepnext news agency reported.
Vedajyoti captivated the audience with her graceful presentation and received invitations to perform in other cities of the Netherlands.
The Milan Festival is an annual multicultural mega-festival of The Hague that takes place in the last weekend of July and attracts more than 70,000 visitors.
Milan was originally a festival for the people of Indian origin who came here from Suriname. Lately, more and more local Dutch as well as people of other ethnic communities are participating in it.