Bharatanatyam By Neha: Events in Hyderabad

REVIEW FOR BHARATANATYAM BY NEHA

Kalasagaram is presenting its Annual Youth Festival Of Dance from 14th to 16th March, at the Keyes High School For Girls, Secunderabad. This 3-day festival will feature 3 young and upcoming dancers, S Geetha Krishna, Neha and Mashantha Vishwanathan.

Today, the 2nd of the festival, young Bharatanatyam dancer Neha will be performing. Neha has trained for over 8 years under the renowned Natyacharya Nritya Kalasagara V S Ramamoorthy, and Manjula Ramaswamy of Sri Rama Nataka Niketan, Hyderabad. She had her arangetram at Ravindra Bharathi in June 2005.

Neha has performed for the Department of Tourism at Hyderabad, Tirupati, Rajahmundry, Nagpur and Raipur, for the Department of Culture at Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Bhopal, for the South Central Zone Cultural Centre at Bangalore and Nagpur, for the annual Brahmotsavams of Tirupati, Vijayawada and Yadagirigutta, and for cultural organisations such as Kalasagaram, SICA and Chaitanya Art Theater.

Kalasagaram organises a youth festival of dance every year where upcoming artistes are invited from all over the country, particularly South India. It also organises a youth festival of music, the last edition of which organised last month had Poornima Krishnan, Maharajapuram S Ganesh Vishwanathan and N Harish performing.

Kalasagaram is a South-Indian cultural association situated in the East Nehru Nagar of East Marredpally, and has been organising Carnatic music concerts for more than 35 years. The concerts are usually held in the open-air theater of the Keyes High School campus. The singers are generally from outside Hyderabad, usually amateurs and upcoming artistes, and quite competent. Kalasagaram also occasionally stages South-Indian classical dances and Tamil plays.

Please contact Rajagopalan of Kalasagaram at 2773-1775 for further details.