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SWARA THANDAVAM - ONE 2010 FINE ARTS CONTEST

Aahaarya is organizing the first competition as Swara Thandavam Contest 2010, on Indian classical dace, music and sanskrit chanting (e.g. Slokas). The  event is divided into three levels ending with a grand finale and awards. Any changes in rules and requiremen for the contest will be announced prior to each next level (see attachment). Lunch, Snack and Dinner will be available during the contest time, with the purchase of coupons.

Indian classical dance, music and Sanskrit chanting contest

SWARA THANDAVAM one 2010

Date:           august 28 (sat), 2010
time:      10 am to 6 PM
venue:   the universities at shady grove
9630 gudelsky drive, rockville, MD
for directions: www.shadygrove.umd.edu

For rules, guidelines and entry forms
  Visit:  www.aahaarya.org

E-Mail :  aahaaryaclassicals@gmail.com


Document
RULES AND GUIDELINES
Document
CONTESTANTS' FORM
Document
JUDGES' FORM

Past Events

July 2010 - Sri Krishna parijatham by Padmasree Dr. Sobha Naidu, Dr. Subha Maruvada, Lakshmi Babu, Purnima Aveti
MAR 2010 - Dance program by Subha Maruvada at WHCC
MAR 2010  - Classical dance Competition at

Jan 2010 - Kuchipudi dance drama - Kalyana Srinivasam at MCC
Dec 2009 - Kuchipudi dance program at Lotus Temple
Nov 2009 - Served as judge for International dance Contest
Sep 2009 - Kuchipudi solo items in multiple languages


 


Kumara Sambhavam
Kuchipudi dance drama by Kuchipudi Dance Academy:
Sri Pasumarti Sarma - Tarakasura
Subha Maruvada - Shiva
Lakshmi Babu - Parvati
Student of Kuchipudi Dance Academy


INDIA DANCE COMPETITION: 
Held on Dec 5th. at Sri Siva Vishnu Temple, Maryland, and plan to be aired by SONY Entertainment will be announced by IDC. Subha Maruvada was one of the judges for this event.


NRITYA NEERAJANAM
This was the very first event sponsored by our organization was very successful, and was well received. We did fulfil the two foundations (National Kidney Foundation of Maryland and TANKER Foundation of Chennai) with our promised donations. This Program, titled “Nritya Neerajanam”, comprised of items in several non-traditional languages in addition to Telugu and Sanskrit, one item each in Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Manipravalam, Hindi and Bengali.  Many of the performers, in addition to Ravi Shankar himself in two of the items, were long-time senior former students of the Kuchipudi Art Academy, Chennai, currently living in several states in the US.  The performers included Yamini Saripalli, Bindu Madhavi Gutti, Sangita Rangala, Subha Maruvada, Anuradha Murali, Vanita Sundararaman, Sasikala enumarthi, Hima Bindu Challa, Swati Gundapuneedi, Lakshmi Babu, Jyotsna Potarazu, and Shreya Babu as Krishna. 

♦  Video Recording by Michael Kinney    ♦  Photograph by Clark Buikstra


KUCHIPUDI TO BLIND CHILDREN
Aahaarya is glad to announce that Kuchipudi dance classes to blind children has started by us. One of our staff members, Sruthi Lingam is teaching classes. Currently we have 27 students, 17 of them are partially blind and 10 are totally blind. Please witness our presentaion. We are taking steps to provide a Braille printer to the blind school and provide this very soon.


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