Bharatanatyam danseuse and cultural enterpreneur

                   Disciple of Padmashri Guru Dr. Saroja Vaidyanathan

                                  
Recent snippets:

• Faculty member at Ganesa Natyalaya- Centre for Bharatanatyam in New Delhi.

- Indian Council for Cultural Relations empanelled artiste

- Sahitya Kala Parishad scholarship holder- 2012 to 2014

• Doordarshan Graded Artiste

● TEDx Speaker: Spoken at TEDx Pune, TEDx NCR, TEDx Chandigarh, TEDx Young Leaders of Tommorrow, TEDxVasant Kunj

 

- Founder-President of Sarvam Foundation- a cultural society for promoting the arts. Run an NGO within it too for teaching classical dance to poor and specially challenged children.

 

Programs in 2013:

 

- Opening invocation on women equality by Nehha for Rotary District Conference, Taj Palace, Delhi

 -Solo recital by Nehha at Cuttack Mahotsav, Orissa

 -Duet performance for Sangeet Natak Akademi, Taj Mansingh, Delhi

 -TEDxIIT Roorkee talk by Nehha at IIT, Roorkee

-Natyanjali Festival tour of temples at Nagapattinam, Mayavarm, Thiruvallar, Kumbakonam and Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu, India

- Opening convocation for Intercity meet for Rotary International President, Radisson Blu Hotel, Noida

- Ganesa Natyalaya Annual Day performances at Kamani Auditorium, Delhi

Programs: 2012 and 2011:

-  Upcoming solos and duets at Nehru Centre, Mumbai, Gaiety Theatre Shimla, IIT Roorkee, Ujjain Festival, Cuttack Mahotsav

 

- Nritya Milan, festival for young dancers by Ministry of Culture at LTG Auditorium, Delhi

 

- Group show at Modern School Barakhamba, Delhi

 

- Choreographed a traffic dance piece for Automobile Association of Upper India

 

-  Nakshatra and Zero to Infinity group show at Kamani Auditorium, Delhi

 

-  Opened the Rendezvous festival as a solo dancer at IIT Delhi

 

- ANANYA festival at Purana Qila

 

- TEDx programs at various schools/colleges: Lingaya’s University, Vasant Kunj, NCR, Pune.

 

- World Dance day celebrations at National School of Drama, Delhi

 

- International Dance Alliance, India- group recital at Narada Gana Sabha, Chennai

 

-  Horizons Group recital at ICCR

-  Kalidas Samman Award ceremony recital, Bhopal

- Unique choreographies in Bharatanatyam at Kamani Auditorium, Delhi

-  Many lecture demonstrations at Indian Council For Cultural Relations

- Organized and performed at ‘TWOgether- an evening of the most talented young artistes at Zorba the Buddha, Delhi

-  Margazhi group recital at Bharat Kalachar and Meenakshi Sundarajan Fine Arts Academy, Chennai

→ Member of senior troupe sent to Latvia and Sweden on behalf of Indian Embassy in Stockholm. Compered and performed at the prestigious recitals

●  Member of delegation to China on behalf of Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports- performed extensively amongst which Great Hall of the People, Beijing for Wen Jiabao, the Chinese Premier, was also included.

●   India-China 60 years of diplomatic relations program at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium

●  All India Journalist Association program at Ashok Hotel, New Delhi

●  Subramanya Bhartiyar’s poems for San Francisco Bay Area Tamil Manram, USA

●  Group performance at IIT Delhi

●  International Mettalurgical Conference, Pragati Maidan, Delhi

●  Mahishasura Mardini, Bangalore

●  Soorya Festival, Thiruvananthapuram

● Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony, Tree of Knowledge segment

● Mahishasura Mardini at Chinmaya Mission, New Delhi

● Solo evening at Kuwait Embassy, New Delhi

● ‘Abhas: Divinity in Dance”, a solo at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi( Chief Guest- Dr. Shashi Tharoor)

● Lecture Demonstration with Guruji at Centre For Cultural Research and Training, Dwarka

● Recital/tribute for Pandit Ravi Shankar’s 90th Birthday Celebration at Indian Islamic Cultural Centre, Lodhi Road, Delhi

● Recital for All India Inner Wheel Club at PHD House, Khel Gaon Marg, Delhi

● ‘Dance and Diplomacy’: solo lecture demonstrations and recital at Princeton University, Brown University, Grinnell College and Knox College- USA

● Solo at ‘Samagam’ for School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

● Lecture demonstration and recital for Embassy of Dominican Republic, their delegation and various Latin American ambassadors at Ganesa Natyalaya, New Delhi

● Dance Diplomacy: An evening of Bharatanatyam hosted by the Ministry Of External Affairs for various ambassadors to India.

● Engineers India Limited Conference, Delhi

● ‘Building a culture of peace’ lecture demonstration through dance at the 8th Asia Society 2nd Festival Forum, University of Mumbai

● Road Safety Week at Pragati Maidan (special skit on traffic rules)

● Inner Wheel Circle of Rotary, Delhi

● Presentation for the Ambassador of India to Kazakhstan

● Aarohan 2010: Recital at NIT, Durgapur, W. Bengal

● Prime Minister’s delegation for Commonwealth Games, Taj Palace, Delhi

● Kamakhya Festival, Guwahati

● Pradosham, a ballet on the Natya Shastra at Chinmaya Mission

● Uday Shankar Festival, Jaipur


Programs: (2009)

● 5th Dhauli Mahotsav at Orissa

● Lecture Demonstration at the 50th Golden Jubilee celebrations of MNNIT, Allahabad, U.P

● “Patriotism and Women’s Liberation”: Subramanya Bhartia’s poems at Delhi Tamil Sangam

● Solo evening at Triveni Kala Sangam, Delhi

● Sangeet Natak Akademi: Tour to Kazakhstan

• Shivashtakam, a solo evening at Triveni Kala Sangam                  

• Krishnarpanam, a solo evening at Isckon Auditorium, Delhi

• Commonwealth Baton Relay ceremony

• UNESCO World Heritage Day, Pune

• Taj Mahotsav, Agra

• Performance for Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State of Bill Clinton, USA

• ‘Youth Express’ on Doordarshan National

• A group member of recordings for Sangeet Natak Akademi and IGNOU

• Indian Federation of United Nations Associations: Asia-Pacific conferences

• ‘ Shubha Mudgal evening’ in collaboration with Celiac Society of India at Habitat Centre, Delhi

• IGNOU recording for ‘Classical Dance’ syllabus

• Dheerga Santushti, an evening of dance on peace at Kamani Auditorium

• Natya Taringini, an evening of dance on Abhangs at Sai Auditorium( Chief Guest - APJ Abdul Kalam)

• Embassy performances: China and U.S.A

• Spic Macay series with Guruji at Kurukshetra

• Lecture demonstrations at various colleges across the United States