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Parijat Desai is Artistic Director of Parijat Desai Dance Company, which creates and performs a blend of Indian classical and Western contemporary dance. PDDC has performed at venues like Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Danspace Project, SF Asian Art Museum, Skirball Cultural Center (LA), The Dance Centre (Vancouver), and The Other Festival (Chennai). Parijat was an Artist Fellow at Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts and is currently artist-in-residence at Tribeca PAC, where she will present works-in-progress with musicians this June. Parijat offers classes in contemporary dance and contemporary bharata natyam. www.parijatdesai.org |
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Dr. Janaki Rangarajan is known for her unique style of Bharatanatyam and has performed all over the world. She is a recipient of several awards from Indian arts organizations, a graded artist for Indian national television, and an empanelled artist of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and the Creative Arts Programs of Fairfax County. Over the past year, she received the Strauss Fellowship for Choreography and was a finalist in the “Outstanding Individual Performer” and “Emerging Choreographer” categories at the Metro Dance DC Awards. www.nrityaniketan.com |
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The Sa Dance Company is committed to increasing awareness of Indian dance in the mainstream. It serves as a platform for expressing the Indian-American identity through movement inspired by our Indian folk and classical dance heritage, our training in Western dance disciplines, as well as our varied mainstream experiences that have all molded us into the individual dancers we are today. The name "Sa" originates from the foundation of Indian classical music where "sa" is the first note in the Indian musical octave. www.sadancecompany.com |
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Malini Srinivasan, a Bharatanatyam dancer and teacher began her training with her mother and grandmother in Chennai where she also studied Nattuvangam, Carnatic vocal music, Kalaripayattu, Yoga, Sanskrit and Tamil. Currently a disciple of world-renowned artist Sri C.V. Chandrasekhar and herself a critically-acclaimed soloist, she was awarded residencies with Dance in Queens (2009) LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (2010), and the Queens Council on the Arts(2010). Malini is a Lecturer at the Asian & Asian-American Studies, SUNY Stony Brook, on the dance faculty of the Young Indian Culture Group, and City Lore. www.malinisrinivasan.com |
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Preeti Vasudevan, founder and artistic director of Thresh, is a critically acclaimed exponent of Bharatanatyam Classical Indian Dance, and a choreographer exploring her traditional training and practice in combination with more contemporary Western Dance forms to create a unique emerging methodology in dance. Preeti recently created a ground breaking interactive educational website called Dancing for the Gods to help open creative access of Bharatanatyam for specialists and non-specialists in Indian dance. www.dancingforthegods.org For more information on Preeti or Thresh please go to www.threshdance.org |
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