Sangeet Natak Akademi organized Nritya Sangam, one of the series of dance festivals begun in 2004, with the aim of bringing to dance enthusiasts in far - flung town and cities the spectrum of Indian dance within the compass of a single event. Well-known
artists in major forms of dance have been featured in the Nritya Sangam series. The two previous festivals were held at Raipur and Guwahati in 2004 and 2005. In December 2006, Nritya Sangam was organized in collaboration with the South Central Zone Cultural Centre (SCZCC), Nagpur, at Dr Vasantrao Deshpande Smruti Sabhagruha, Civil Lines, Nagpur, from 25 to 28
Sepember. The festival was inaugurated by the Hon'ble Justice of Bombay High Court, Nagpur Bench, Shri Kishore Ronee, Shri Ambadas Joshi and Shri Anand Limaye, Divisional Commissiner of Nagpur on 25 September 2006. Programme follows:

25 September

Sujata Mohapatra, Bhubaneswar: Odissi; Anuradha & Sridhar,
Bangalore: Bharatanatyam.

26 September

Ramakrishna Talukdar, Guwahati: Sattriya; Neena Prasad,
Trivandrum: Mohiniattam; Vaishali Trivedi, Ahmedabad: Kathak.

27 September

Margi Vijayakumar, Trivandrum: Kathakali; Aloka Kanungo,
Kolkata: Odissi; Srekala Bharath, Chennai: Bharatanatyam.

28 September

Nandita Devi, Delhi: Manipuri; Vijayanthi Kashi, Bangalore:
Kuchipudi; Sandeep K. Mahavir, Mumbai: Kathak.