Kannada Actor Diganth visits Natyanjali

Exams, i have always hated them from the beginning. But never hated exams this much ever before. A message arrives in my inbox " Dears, today Diganth is visiting our dance class pl reply for your presence"

As expected mom would not let me go as i had exams starting from 26th and he visited on 25th. I still wanted to give it a try. Diganth is always been my adorable and the cutest actor in recent times in the kannada film industry. And yes she dint let me go for it.

Stayed back at home. But the question is how far did it help? Did i actually study? No i dint how can i ever study when i was missing all the fun and such a nice opportunity to meet an Actor. For me he's just not an actor as i love him and his acting. All i was doing was sitting in front of the book but my mind was wandering in Natyanjali. I was dreaming as to what they were doing there with him. what did he say? im sure they would have been clicking pics. All this was running on my mind.



Never felt so bad before for missing dance class or even a show/program for matter. but when it came to missing of Diganth's visit my heart was pricking.

Next day i open face book and my home page is filled of pictures and updates from my dance class friends. What was it all about? If you are thinking what i am thinking its absolutely true. It was all about Diganth.

Im so "J" now but helpless. Life has to go on but i never stop hating exams and can never forget this incidence that happen to me.

Performances this week

Soundarya's Bharatanatyam Solo performance is being featured in the MARGAM FESTIVAL at Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Malleshwaram, Bangalore.
http://www.facebook.com/events/343293892384153/

The Performance is for The festival of Varnams "MARGAM"
hosted by "Academy of Music" and the Festival is Executed by Smt. Usha R. K.

All Are Welcome

http://www.facebook.com/events/189898124458210/

ABCD

What on the earth is this? Are we going way back to nursery? How is this realted to dance? Why is this post here?

Are these questions in your mind? Then you are on the right path.. This is a movie for dance lovers. Its just hit the floors. Hold your feet on til the end of 2012.

ABCD= AnyBody Can Dance

want to know more? Click on the link below.

http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movies/features/type/view/id/3147

Im sure its going to be a big one. I cant wait for the movie to be on screens.

Natyanjali is just not a dance school

Natyanjali is just not a dance school, its more than a home and family. Celebrating festivals, birthdays, performing, traveling, playing, shopping and what not. Its a journey considered as the best part of my life. May it b a program in Bangalore or outside journey in train, bus tempo whatever. Its been filling the special pages of my life.

Im so glad that my sir also joins us and enjoys with us inspite of him being our guru he plays multi roles like a parent and friend.

A small glimps of how we enjoy where ever we go and whatever the situation may be.



This is how we enjoyed in black thuder after a performance in Coonoor St joseph's indian highschool auditorium.




We forget how old we are kids or adults we still enjoy the FREE Train ride before our performance in Balbhavan.



Vijayadashmi celebrations at Natyanjali




The fun during the journey




Celebrating birthdays








Insanity, madness and when we dont care about the world and behave the way we want





Photo shoot and classes (when pretending for a photo shoot)



Behind the scenes of a photo shoot.

12 years of my journey in such a dance school dont you think it would have filled the special pages of my life?

Yes its been the best parts of my life.

The day when i never wanted to dance

This is something that ever happen to me in the whole 12 years of my dancing journey. I have never said no when it comes to dance. I am a person who never cared about my health, exams or whatever. Dance was my first preference. But finally that day came when i never wanted to dance, i had not even imagined that such a day would come.

Yes it was December 11th 2011. It was because our show was in Nityananda's ashram and we were dancing for his birthday celebration.

Even after knowing the facts of him who would ever want to dance for such a person? It was a disgust for me to dance for such a person but it was a helpless situation as my Sir is a great follower of Nityananda.

With no mood i go to perform for the sake of it. There we reach his ashram. We were escorted well and treated well. Unfortunately for security reasons we had to wear a badge in which his photo was there. And i just could not wear it i felt dirty even for that card to touch me. I held it in my hand using the pin, walking all around the ashram with the guide we had a good laughter.

He is suppose to be a swami but the whole laughter was because he was dressed as a king with different costumes and clicked pictures in different poses. He was so self obsessed and each and every picture he looked funny. the expressions on his face my god we never could stop laughing. we controlled so much that as soon as we entered our rooms we laughed continuously for an hour or so.

Time for lunch- we were suppose to have our lunch also there and it dint even seem lke a lunch cos there were more than 25 items but had no taste.

Time for the show- Just went on as it had to go. I was never satisfied with my performance. when there is no complete involvement how can you expect a satisfaction?

The best part- the way he was dressed and the way he was sitting and watching us dance. he was dressed more than a kind. god only kno hw much of money he has scammed to be so rich and dress like a king.

The worst part- We had to go fall to his feet and take blessings after the show and i really dint want to do this. actually none of us wanted to but we were forced. i dint even bend down or touch him. i was so far off and he said "Bless you ma bless you". I was thinking in my mind "I never asked for it".

Finally- Everything was over and over all it was a comedy show. No camera was allowed for security reasons.

After effects in the tempo- Teasing him in his photos the way he dressed etc a complete bitching session. We said "No cameras are allowed cos the truth may again be revealed".

Ooty summer festival

Was conducted by Niligiris from 6th may 2010 to 16th may 2010. It was a 10 day festival where various dance and music schools were a part of it. It was not a competition as such but just a colourful show that happens every summer. Our dance school Natyanjali was also a part of it. We were given the slot for the last of the festival. Hearing this we all were a little worried if we will have the presence of a good crowd. This only happen to us as we had planned to do a new production for them and we dint want our debut to be bad or have less crowd. When Sir told this to us all we said was “Sir we have the capacity to grab the crowd with our music as fits a garden we are sure people will come running once the music starts playing.”

The new production was “RAAS” known as Raasleela.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL0ECyVCzN0The very ownhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif game of our lord Krishna where he has his own way to impress the Gopika’s, he stays with each and every Gopika and satisfy them. The choreography had come out so very well that all of us were very enthusiastic and excited of our debut. This item is more of expression and emotion more than the dance in the beginning. The dance energy comes only in the end part of it. The beats and words move very fast here.

The costumes arrived just the day we were leaving to ooty and the excitement we had to see the new costumes is not definable. In spite of all the excitement we had we could not see the costumes that day as it was packed and moved to the bus already. We had to hold back our emotions and excitement. Holding back the eagerness we got into the bus and the journey began at 9 pm. As usual we started playing our game Literature. It goes on all night without sleep. Sleeping in a bus is the least thing we will do when we are with Natyanjali. Its very hard sleep never happens. The ony time we slept was when we stopped at Bandipur forest when the gates were not open we had to stop and wait for the gate to open.

Next morning after the arrival in Ooty, we were all set for shopping. The first thing that flashed our mind when it came to Ooty was Chocolates. On the way to shopping we found our photos and banners inviting for our show. We were a little relaxed after this view. We were also happy and proud of ourselves that we had publicity and will get audience. We were so energetic even after the sleep less journey that we wanted to “Break the stage for RAAS”.
We had the best time shopping. Dance performances are just not performances it includes site seeing, fun and shopping.

After all the heavy shopping we quickly get ready and were set for the show. We started off with the Pushpanjali as usual and continued with other items. But when it came Raas audience were high. They were whistling. Especially when it came to the end i could see people dancing side stage. This is the best dancing experience and the audience reaction we have ever got.


Finally our debut was a grand success. With great satisfaction we returned to the bus. As a part of celebration we started playing literature again till we returned back to Bangalore. As soon as we returned back to Bangalore our beds were ready in Sir’s house and all of us fell flat on the bed.

My first ever performance

Back in those days in the year 2007 i still remember as to how i was selected for my first performance from Natyanjali. I was the only one selected from my batch to perform for the republic day in presence of HD Kumaraswamy and TN Chaturvedi. It was a completely new concept and a new platform for me with all the seniors. When i heard this i was so scared thinking i will be out of place.

I spoke to myself "Here my journey begins" and just moved on. the practices began, but it never was like i imagined i was never out of the place even if i was the only junior with the rest being seniors and super seniors. There was no difference everyone was treated equally there was no concept of a senior and junior they were all completely down to earth by treating me as one of them.

The happinessi had seeing this and the way they behaved was just cannot be explained. "the excitement to perfrom was sparkling in my eye" says mom.
On the day of performance i was super excited as it was my debut. That excitement killed all my nervousness and stage fear. That was the day when i forgot wat stage fear and nervousness was.

the show began and also came to an end just in no time. The happiness i had after the performance was totally different than the one before.

From then on i was welcomed to the performing team of Natyanjali and started my journey. I not only performed in Bangalore i started to travel and perform in and around Karnataka.

I am so thankful to my sir Guru Sri Ashok Kumar the artistic director of Natyanjali who has been so supportive and been giving me opportunity to perform

Events List

Deeptha sheshadri Performing for Natyanjali on the 4th of march in the indian institute of wrold cultue at 630pm

Shakthi an odissi dance performance on the 4th march at Bharathiya vidya bhavana at 6:30 pm

Natya- Stem Dance Kampani Performs for Natyanjali

Kathak is always been a dance form i like to learn. each and every performance i watch its attracting me like a magnet.

Natyanjali celebrated its 25th anniversary nirthyaarpanam on the 20th feb in ADA rangamandira.
Natya was a part of the celebration.I saw the troupe from the stage rehearsal to the show.

the respect, the culture they maintain is just so different. their stage rehearsals were equal to the show. Each and every step had the expressions, smlie, grace and energy.

For me always stage rehearsals have just another dry run thru types. This showed me how different institutions work. It also teaches how different teachers and choreographers work.

When my sir spoke about Maya Deedhi i just thought that he just exaggerates. But when i myself actually experienced i realized how strict, disciplined and particular she is.

I was so impressed seeing their rehearsals that i just could not wait to see their performance. Thoughts ran in my mind "When they rehearse so well how should be their show?"


When they were on stage performing i just could not believe my eye. They were extremely good. It was more than a treat to my eye. They just pulled me into their dance and i was floating in the flow of the music tapping my feet to the beats and had a smile on my face without knowledge.

The boys in the troupe also had so much grace and were so excellent. I can say the boys stole the show and were so good, their smile never faded away.

Impressed! Natya stem is making me and dragging me to the world of Kathak. After i watched the show i really want to be a part of stem and learn Kathak.