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St. Louis Indian Dance
Festival - 2008
Friday – Sept 12,
2008
6:00 -
Inauguration of the festival
6:30 – Bharathanatyam
by
Dr.
Seshadri Iyengar – From Bangalore, India
7:15 -
Sharavanabhava OM
- A
thematic dance - by
Shobha Subramanian
from Washington DC
8:15 –
Subhashitam - Parables from India, a Dance drama
by
Monica Mahadevan,
Natyanivedanam of Nashville, Tennessee
Saturday
– Sept 13,
2008
4:00 PM - Kathak dance by Stuti,
Keertana, Ishaa
4:15 -
Dwiveni
– Two Small dance dramas
– Punyakoti, Dokka Seetamma by Anisha and Vidya
6:30 -
Kathak by
Shila
Mehta, Bombay, India
7:15 –
Gokula Nirgamana
–
USA’s first Indian Opera -
by
Guru Prasanna Kasthuri of Soorya Performing Arts, St. Louis
Sunday – Sept 14, 2008
4:00 - Invocation by Misri Patel, Adya
and others
4:10 - Krishna Tulabhara - A Small Gujarati dance dramas
– Mrunal Desai
4:30 –Avatara
Roopi Maha Vishnu -
Akhila Rao, Director of
Apoorva Noopura from Bridgewater, NJ
5:30 – Shringara Naradiyam - Comedy Dance
Drama
by
Pulikeshi Kasturi,
Vijayashree Ashok,
Ramya Ajay – (All from India)
6:30 -
Mohini Attam by
Smita Rajan
from St. Louis, MO
by
Prof.
Robert Reed &
Guru Prasanna Kasthuri
on Tabla by Naren Budhkar (Newyork), on Mrudangam by Ramesh Ramalingappa(Bangalore, India)
and on Flute by Jayaparakash
(Kannur, Kerala, India) , Sitar by Gurmukh Sahni
Pulikeshi Kasturi
Ramya Ajay
Vijayashree Ashok
Jayaprakash Kannur
Ramesh Ramalingappa
Seshadri Iyengar
Shila Mehta
Kishore Masalikanti
Artists From USA
Akhila Rao
Shobha Subramanian
Monica Mahadevan
Naren Budhkar
Prof. Robert Reed
Sushma Mohan
Aditi Bandhopadhyaya
Artist From St. Louis
Guru Prasanna Kasthuri
Seema Kasthuri
Smith Rajan
Sujatha Vinjamuri
Vidya Mantrala
Sneha Doss
Anisha Gururaj
Mrunal Desai
Students of
Soorya
Performing Arts
Students of
Kuchipudi Arts Academy
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