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EXPIRE: 6/30/2019
Indian Classical - Bharatanatyam Dance class 1 hour
Bharatanatyam Dance creates a dancer that is physically strong and trains with awareness of muscular alignment, the prevention of injury and the increase of efficiency of movement.
The class will be a private lesson in Sunnyvale. Alternatively, you may also come to a 1.5 hour group class in Saratoga if you wish.
Nitya Narasimhan, is a dancer whose tryst with bharatanatyam began at the tender age of 4. She currently resides and practices out of California, USA. She has started the ?Prayukti Academy for Indian Arts? in the Bay Area with the hope of creating a platform for quality Indian Art Education and propagation.
Nitya travels to India for her dance training and is pursuing bharatanatyam under the guidance of Guru Rukmini Vijayakumar. She is also mentoring under the Bharatanatyam exponent, Guru Rama Vaidyanathan. In her formative years, she trained under under Guru Suma Mani, Chennai. A graceful, enthusiastic and passionate dancer, Nitya completed her arangetram (debut, solo performance) in the year 2003
Nitya?s interest and passion for movement and dance led her to pursue the Post Diploma program in Movement Arts and Media from the Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, where she graduated with honors. She is currently pursuing Art of Teaching at the Iyengar Institute of Yoga, San Francisco.
She has performed in various podiums and dance festivals across India, the most recent ones being ; Samaagama Chitraleka Arts, Birmmingham (November 2017) ; Kolar Dance Festival, Kolar (December 2017) ; Mysore Articulate Festival, Mysore (December 2017) ; All India Arts and Crafts Festival, Hyderabad (December 2017) ; Kalpashree Samskruthika Mahotsav 2017, Bangalore (December 2017) ; Karthik Fine Arts 43rd year Art Festival, Chennai (Jan 2018). She is currently creating her own solo production ? ?Maathe? , an excerpt of which was premiered in San Francisco, CA (June 2018)
Nitya?s love for the arts also got her involved with the LshVa Art Space, Bangalore for over 2 years where she played an integral role as an Art Manager in organizing various art events, festivals, classes and workshops. This led to interactions with many artists and spreading the love of arts to the community. She also worked as the Programming Director of the Raadha Kalpa Dance Company in this period and handled all of the company?s foreign and local tours and programs.
Her dedication to dance, thirst to learn and constant efforts to grow as an artist is reflected through her unwavering self motivation and incessant practice hours. She believes strongly in upholding and passing on the traditional values of Bharatanatyam while still making it connect with the common audience.
https://nityanarasimhan.com/