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August 5, 2006 St.Louis, Missouri, USA 
Dancer: Anisha Gururaj 
Guru: Prasanna Kasthuri, Soorya Performing Arts, MO, USA  
Venue: Clayton High School Auditorium 
Time: 5:30 pm  
Dance form: Bharatanatyam  
Ph: (636) 227-9366  
Contact: info@sooryadance.com / www.sooryadance.com 
Anisha Gururaj hails from Karnataka. Her focus is on Kannada literature in her arangetram. She presents a composition of Kannada Saint Vyasa Teertha's song as a varnam and a folk tale - "Punyakoti" - as her Natya aspect. Anisha is going to sing it in major carnatic ragas on the stage while dancing.
 
August 12, 2006 St.Louis, Missouri, USA 
Dancer: Sneha Bagavandoss 
Guru: Prasanna Kasthuri, Soorya Performing Arts, MO, USA  
Venue: Center of Contemprary Arts (COCA)  
Time: 5:30 pm  
Dance form: Bharatanatyam  
Ph: (636) 227-9366  
Contact: info@sooryadance.com / www.sooryadance.com 
Sneha Bagavandoss, who is from Pondicherry, presents her dances in Tamil literature. One of the main dance numbers will be using the poems of Tiruvasakkam.
 
August 12, 2006 River Grove, IL, USA 
Dancer: Shreya Shah 
Guru: Hema Rajagopalan, Natya Dance Theatre 
Venue: Triton College Performing Arts Center, River Grove, Illinois 
Time: 6:00pm 
Dance form: Bharatanatyam 
Info: (312) 212-1240, info@natya.com, www.natya.com
 
August 12, 2006 Norwalk, CA, USA 
Dancer: Nirali Shah 
Guru: Rama Bharavaj, Angahara Academy of Performing Arts  
Venue: Sanatan Dharma Temple Auditorium, 15311, Pioneer Blvd, Norwalk 
Time: 6.30pm 
Dance form: Bharatanatyam  
Contact: angahara-ramaa@yahoo.com / www.ramaadance.com
 
August 13, 2006 River Grove, IL, USA 
Dancer: Aarti Israni 
Guru: Hema Rajagopalan, Natya Dance Theatre 
Venue: Triton College Performing Arts Center, River Grove, Illinois 
Time: 4:00pm 
Dance form: Bharatanatyam 
Info: (312) 212-1240, info@natya.com, www.natya.com
 
August 13, 2006 New Delhi 
Dancer: Mansi Trehan 
Guru: Geeta Chandran, Natya Vriksha 
Venue: Chinmaya Mission, Lodi Road, New Delhi  
Time: 6:30 pm  
Dance form: Bharatanatyam 
Contact: natyavriksha@hotmail.com  
Mansi Trehan has been learning Bharatanatyam from Geeta Chandran since 1997.
 
August 19, 2006 St.Louis, Missouri, USA 
Dancer: Sumi Garg  
Guru: Prasanna Kasthuri, Soorya Performing Arts, MO, USA  
Venue: Center of Contemprary Arts (COCA)  
Time: 6:30 pm  
Dance form: Bharatanatyam  
Ph: (636) 227-9366  
Contact: info@sooryadance.com / www.sooryadance.com 
Sumi Garg, from Rajasthan, presents her dances entirely in Hindi. Her main piece is "Mukharia" - a poetry of legendary Amir Khusro (12th Century AD), made into a Varnam level dance number. This is in Hindi. She will also present Sri. Aurobindo's "SAVITRI" as a Natya piece. Sumi will be delivering dialogues of Savitri as vachikabhinaya.
 
August 19, 2006 Chennai 
Dancer: Madhumita Parmar 
Guru: Suba Parmar, Shubanjali School of Performing Arts, NJ 
Venue: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan 
Time: 3:30 pm 
Dance form: Bharatanatyam 
Ph: (908) - 490 - 0732  
Contact: subaparmar@yahoo.com / www.shubanjali.org
 
August 19, 2006 Elgin, IL, USA 
Dancer: Vishaka Raguveer 
Guru: Hema Rajagopalan, Natya Dance Theatre 
Venue: Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois 
Time: 6:00pm 
Dance form: Bharatanatyam 
Info: (312) 212-1240, info@natya.com, www.natya.com
 
August 20, 2006 Palo Alto, CA, USA 
Dancer:  Janani Iyer  
Guru: Suganda Sreenath, Jayendra Kalakendra Academy of Bharatanatyam 
Venue: Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto, CA  
Time: 4 pm 
Orchestra: Babu Parameshwaran and troupe from India 
Dance form: Bharatanatyam  
Contact: jayendrakalakendra@yahoo.com / www.jayendrakalakendra.com
 
August 20, 2006 River Grove, IL, USA 
Dancer: Chitra Asokan 
Guru: Hema Rajagopalan, Natya Dance Theatre 
Venue: Triton College Performing Arts Center, River Grove, Illinois 
Time: 4:00 pm 
Dance form: Bharatanatyam 
Info: (312) 212-1240, info@natya.com, www.natya.com
 
August 26, 2006 La Mirada, CA, USA 
Dancers: Aarthi, Anisha & Shiksha 
Guru: Ramaa Bharadvaj, Angahara Academy of Performing Arts  
Venue: La Mirada Theater for Performing Arts, 14900, La Mirada Blvd,  
Time: 5pm 
Dance form: Bharatanatyam  
Contact: angahara-ramaa@yahoo.com / www.ramaadance.org 
Aarthi, Anisha, & Shiksha have been members of the Angahara Youth Dance Ensemble for the past 4 years.  For their arangetram they will perform several newly choreographed pieces including a unique invocation to the Navagarahas.
 
August 26, 2006 Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA 
Dancer: Sahithya  
Guru: Sandhya Sree, Natya Dharmi Foundation for Performing Arts   
Venue: Wallace F Smith theatre, Oakland Community College 
Dance form: Bharatanatyam  
e-mail: sanskrithi@yahoo.com  
Orchestra: Sandhya Sree - nattuvanagam; Indira Devi - vocal;  Saravanan Sundararajan - mridangam; Jayashanker Balan - violin, Partha Sreenivasan - flute; Kamya Shanker - veena
 
 
 
 
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