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CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL DANCE DAY

HEALING, JOYFUL  & CREATIVE

Sunday 2nd May

2 pm till 8 pm  BST

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(All times are in BST(British Summer Time))

Dr Honey Kalaria

(U.K)

3.00 pm

Host Welcome

Dr Honey Kalaria

Dr. Kalaria is a multi-award winning  dance professional, media presenter and mind-body-soul expert, offering online training and coaching to global audiences to help develop  creative hobbies and performing arts careers, providing education and inspiration through “Power Of Creative Arts” online news site and empowering audiences through “Keys To Life Mastery” interviews.

Honey’s achievements include receiving an Honorary Doctorate of Arts & Best Bollywood International Artist Award, Advisory Member of the National Dance Council; Ambassador to the Duke Of Edinburgh Award. 

Website: www.honeykalariaofficial.com

Sayoni Dey

(Belgium)

2.05 pm

Sayoni Dey

A Mythological Journey Through Bharat Natyam

Sayoni Dey, an Indian Classical Dancer, is a specialist in Bharatnatyam, one of the ancient classical dance forms of India . She started learning dance at the age of 7 in India, and completed her Diploma in Bharatnatyam in the year of 2006. Sayoni is creative and loves to choreograph bharatnatyam dance routines as well as various other styles of dance. Her recent work is Navrupa, a mythological dance drama where all the characters are spiritually connected. Due to her passion for dance, her work has involved voluntarily teaching students in Belgium for a long time.

Suhani Dhanki Mody

(U.K)

2.20 pm

Suhani Dhanki Mody

World Peace Through

Indian Classical Dance

Suhani Dhanki Mody is a disciple of Guru Dr. Sandhya Purecha learning the Thanjavur tradition of Bharatanatyam. Her tryst with dance began at age 5, she has completed her Masters in Dance with a Gold Medal, has received the National Scholarship to Young Artists awarded by the Govt. of India, is a graded artist of the Doordarshan and is qualified as an Assistant Professor for performing arts. She performs extensively as a Soloist, in her Guru’s productions and in collaboration with reputed dance companies in the UK. She was also featured in the list of Akademi’s 40under40 promising artists list to look out for. She is also a known television actor. 
In the session, she will teach a dance presentation of a Sanskrit verse for world peace. 

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Nina Darmeci Kotecha

(U.K)

2.40 pm

Nina Darmeci Kotecha

 Bollywood Dance For All

Nina Darmeci is a founder of ninaschoreography. She is an award winner choreographer and a very popular Zumba instructor. As a qualified Dance Instructor, she has been offering services to people of all ages for over 22 years now. Regardless your level or experience, she is there to give you the professional and artistic attention you deserve. Nina has danced on national and state level in India and across the globe. She has also worked as an extras artist in various Bollywood films. She has also been featured on MATV UK, Colors, BBC India, Nusound Radio – to name a few. She believes dancing should be simple yet effective, where everyone should be able to follow & that’s where she has achieved the most success by making non dancers dance!

Angelique Parvez

(U.K)

2.50 pm

Angelique Parvez

Dance To Inspire With Fusion Dance

Angelique uses her passion for dance to inspire and empower. She has set up an award winning Bollywood dance company (D-Style Dance) to teach Indian dance to kids teens and adults. She teaches Bollywood in many different styles from traditional to semi classical, authentic Bollywood and street dance styles. She also uses dance to promote women’s fitness of body and mind with Bollywood fitness and international dance styles through Zumba. Angelique’s dance background is in Kathak, Bollywood and Street dance, she is an accomplished dancer, teacher and choreographer and has participated at many high profile events and competitions. She is also a highly qualified dance fitness instructor with ETM and Zumba advanced qualifications. She has made dance inclusive to everyone, setting up dance classes for autistic adults, over 60s and those suffering from various conditions. She is a #ThisGirlCan ambassador and has won numerous awards for her work in the community. She dances to inspire and empower.

www.dstyledance.co.uk

Sam Kumar

(India)

3.00 pm

Sam Kumar

Environmental Dance

A Photography book

After completing his Masters degree in Computer Science at IIT Mumbai, Sam Kumar started his professional career with a Global IT company. As a part of his job he lived in US, UK, Holland, Australia, Dubai, Malaysia and Singapore for over 15 years. During this period he developed his passion for photography and film making. In 2010, he started a photography project, ‘Environmental Dance’, which combined his two passions – Nature and Dance. He photographed dancers in graceful movement in outdoor locations such as forests, mountains, parks, temples and monuments. Over the years, Sam Kumar held many solo exhibitions of his Environmental dance photos at art galleries in Singapore, Thailand and India. In February 2021, Sam Kumar published his first photography book ENVIRONMENTAL DANCE. It consists of 126 pages of photographs of dance in nature which had shot with 18 international dancers from India, Holland, US, Japan, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia between 2010 and 2019.

A one-minute video preview of the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a87p0CPau6k

The book is available on Amazon in many countries: https://www.amazon.in/dp/939050788X https://www.instagram.com/samkumarphotography/

Emma Levene

(U.K)

3.20 pm

Emma Levene

 Contemporary & Ballet Fusion

Emma Levene is a professional dancer, choreographer and dance teacher based in East London. She is also owner of Double Twist Dance School and Double Twist Dance Company. Emma has a strong passion for dancing, singing, performing, teaching, and choreographing. She has been trained in classical ballet,modern, jazz, musical theatre and tap dancing. Her work credits include dancing at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics and appearing in musicals including Addams. Her range of work experience includes ballet productions such as Beatrix Potter, circus tours, films including ‘Fantastic Beasts’ and television projects like Made in Chelsea, music videos and TV adverts.She is passionate about teaching dance to all ages from children aged 4 to adults.”

www.emmalevene.com

Neha Sachin

(U.K)

3.40 pm

 Neha Sachin

 Colourful Folk Dances Of India 

Neha Patel is an artistic Director of Sarjan Nartan Academy India & UK. She has done Bharatnatyam.- Alankar (M.A.in Dance). She is specialises in Folk dances of India, as well as Bollywood and Zumba fitness programs. Neha started her training at early age of 5 years, and she has since been trained in Indian classical and folk dances for many years in India. It is always a great pleasure for art loving audiences to watch Neha’s authentic performances. She has wowed national and International audiences with her précised folk dancing in many prestigious events and competitions in India as well as in UK, including events like Diwali on Trafalgar Square, Diwali celebration in House of Common UK and many more.

www.sarjannartanacademy.com

Sharron Rose

(U.S.A)

4.00 pm

Sharron Rose

Scholar, Researcher and Film Maker

Sharron Rose, M.A. Ed., is a true renaissance woman. A filmmaker, choreographer, composer and teacher, she has received grants and awards for her work including a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to conduct extensive research into the art, culture and spiritual traditions of North India where she became the first American disciple of Kathak Queen Sitara Devi. A scholar in world dance, music and religion, her research includes the teachings of Egypt, Tibet, Kabbalah, Shamanism, Gnosticism and Taoism. In 2000, she cofounded Sacred Mysteries Productions, for which she has produced numerous documentary films. Sharron is the author The Path of the Priestess: A Guidebook for Awakening the Divine Feminine and is currently completing her cd, The Nectar of Bliss dedicated to the Divine Feminine in cultures throughout the world

www.quantumqimovie.com

Dr. Wai Ching Lee

(Malaysia)

4.20 pm

Dame Rev. Dr. Wai Ching Lee

Healing Through TranscenDance

Dame Rev. Dr. Wai Ching Lee, an intuitive healer, holistic bodywork therapist who created Infinity Quantum Qi Gong in 1990 after a spiritual awakening. She started practising Qi Gong in the temples with her mother and her passion for movement and exercise expanded to aerobics and exploring different genres of dance during the disco era. TranscenDance was birthed from weaving the consciousness of Soma- body intelligence and cellular memory with the embodiment of transformation in the physical body. She has also developed Wai Ching, a therapeutic water dance to bring the benefits of Tai Chi and healing in water to support the inner and outer fluids balance as a return to the amniosis of the womb. In addition, she also offers Dancing with the Divine, embodying the different qualities of deities during an 8 days retreat in Bali and Bhutan. Wai Ching has led TranscenDance and Ecstatic Dances in both Bali and Malaysia, as well as trained others in Somatic Healing.

Maida Withers

(U.S.A)

4.40 pm

Maida Withers

 Dance: Passion & Technology

Washington, DC is the home base for Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company. A powerful, commanding performer, Maida is known internationally for daring in movement and innovation as a choreographer. She is  driving force pushing definitions of dance into the 21st Century, creating entertaining, intriguing works, always with an eye to the future. Works are always about dancing, but also probe in fascinating ways her concerns about planet earth, sustaining our place in the universe, pandemics such as AIDS, and fairness and equity for all. Excerpts of dance works shown today focus on multimedia narrative works and dances where the dancers on stage are, in real-time, interacting with technology through the computer. www.maidadance.com

Shine Krishna

(India)

5.00 pm

Shine Krishna

The Art Of Puppet Dance

Shine Krishna is the Choreographer and Performer of this Rajasthani Puppet dance. She is also director of Rhythm Arts and Dance academy which she is running since 1999. She has expertise in classical Bharat Natyam and various Indian Folk dances, as well as experience choreographing Bollywood dances, organising cultural events & fashion shows. Performing has always been her passion. Her other talents include being an author of various books about Indian culture and fashion include “Fashion Rendering”. She has studied 5 years in Bharat Nataym and has a dance diploma in Indian folk dances from Kheragadh University India.

Shine has had many awards including being nominated for President Award for the best Student of the Year, received International Woman’s Award from Indian Government in Delhi India, and awarded “Youngest Choreographer” title in Madhya Pradesh, India. In total she has won 27 Garba & Dandiya Dance Competition awards. At Rhythm Arts & Dance Academy, she provides free training to students. Today she will educate us about a special traditional dance art form known as “Puppet Dance”.

https://www.facebook.com/RhythmShineKrishna/

Ramzi

(U.S.A)

5.20 pm

Ramzi El-Edlibi

Sufism and Middle Eastern Dance

Ramzi El-Edlibi is a Dancer, Choreographer and musician. As a world dance and music student, he has  studied with the world’s most outstanding dance teachers of the world, Mr Vladimir Dokodovsky of the Russian Ballet of Monte Carlo and Ustaz Abdulhalim Caracalla of Caracalla Dance Company of Lebanon, and has studied many other traditional dance forms including Flamenco, Kathak, Latin American and Ballroom dances. Ramzi has travelled around the world performing in the most prestigious theatres such as Carnegie Hall of NYC and Saddlers Wells in London. At present Ramzi is the artistic director of “Dance Around The World”, an Arts in Education program to help bring dance and music from around the world into the public schools of USA.

www.ramzidance.com

Ragasudha Vinjamuri

(U.K)

5.40 pm

Ragasudha Vinjamuri

Rich & Diverse Tribal Dances of India

Ragasudha Vinjamuri FRSA is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Sunderland in London. She is an award-winning dancer who has carved a niche for herself and broken barriers in taking Indian dancing to a variety of subjects and occasions in the UK and in Europe. She is the Founder of Sanskruti Centre for Cultural Excellence which highlights, promotes, and trains in unique Tribal dance forms of India, and publishes heritage and literary works. Her name was entered into Limca Book of Records 2018 edition in the Performing Arts Chapter. Today she will give us an insight into some of the diverse range of tribal dances that can be found in India.

Jesse Manno

(U.S.A)

6.00 pm

Jesse Manno

Power Of Multi-Cultural Dance Music

Jesse Manno serves part time as the Music Director for the Dance Program at The University of Colorado in Boulder, an association that began when he was pursuing his B.A. in Asian Studies from CU Boulder in the 1980s. Since then he has also been a freelance composer, recording artist, producer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, improviser, teacher, and above all, collaborator. He loves to support various art forms with a wide variety of sounds, and in this role has created over 200 commissioned original scores for dance, theatre, film, and inter-disciplinary events for numerous arts entities across the USA, as well as in Europe and Asia. He is a frequent Artist In Residence at the Bates Dance Festival, and is Music Director for Turning The Wheel, Inc, which fosters vibrant communities through the arts for at risk youth and their mentors. Under another hat, he is a co-founder of the Balkan/Middle Eastern ensemble SHEREFE (sherefe.org), a Colorado based ensemble which performs traditional music from the Balkans and Middle East, regionally and nationally for private, public, spiritual, educational, and government events. He has performed at BAM Next Wave Festival (NY), World Sacred Music Festival (LA), Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Bates Dance Festival, and NAFSA Educational Conferences, among many others.

www.sherefe.org

Jill Bittinger

(U.S.A)

6.20 pm

Jill Bittinger

 Dance  Education for Children

Jill Dianne Bittinger has been a Multicultural Arts Educator for 10 years and Montessori Lead for 15 years. Deeply committed towards a vision of education as a multifold process that must touch hearts as well as minds, honoring emotions in the process, she is currently developing her company “Transformed Education,” teaching as a Montessori educator, and writing a book, “Teaching with the Soul in Mind.” Working as a performing and teaching artist in New York gave her special awareness of the valuable role the Dance Arts can play in relating and connecting people to themselves, and to one another. Her particular love for the cultural aspect of dance comes from recognizing the unifying force it carries. no matter what the context. Jill Dianne is a force for the unification of mind body and spirit, helping to inspire the Light within.

Dr Honey Kalaria

(U.K)

6.40 pm

Dr Honey Kalaria

TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH DANCE

Dr Honey Kalaria, is a multi-award-winning dance professional, media presenter and mind-body-soul expert, popularly known as “Bollywood Ambassador to the UK”, and recognized Nationally and Internationally for:- Contributing extensively to the world of dance and performing arts; Promoting Indian art and culture; Developing East West relations; Supporting health, fitness & wellness programs; Breaking the Guinness Book Of World Record on SKY TV; Appearing on TV shows, choreographing for films and working on high profile projects alongside Bollywood Stars & Mainstream Celebrities; Offering online membership, training and coaching programs for artists & the global dance community.

Some of Honey’s achievements include: Receiving Best Bollywood International Artist Award; Founder of ‘Honeys Dance Academy’ which ran 20 centres in the UK; Member of Local Mayors Fundraising Appeal Committee; Advisory Member of the National Dance Council; Ambassador for The Duke Of Edinburgh Award; Recipient of the “Best Dance & Performing Arts Coach” 2020 Award.

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www.honeykalariaofficial.com

7.00 pm

DANCE QUESTION & ANSWERS

 General Open for ALL Session

7:00 pm

THANK YOU 

Technical Director –  Nishit Kotak 

Creative Director – Sarita Menon

Production  Director – Dr Honey Kalaria

Host Director – Simran Ahuja 

Promotions Strategist – Varsha Mistry

Media Team – Kesh Morjaria and Anita Nomula 

Host Team – Dr Honey Kalaria

Back Up Team –  Deepa Vithlani, Dr Milen Shah, Mallesh Kota,

Dr Sheila Dobee, Renu Gidoomal, Shivali Ruparelia, Saivani Samboo,

Meena Trivedy and Dr Lalit Sodha.

Facilitator Team – Dr Honey Kalaria

Channel Partners – Hindu Forum of Europe, MentalHealth_Connect, Hindu Matters in Britain, Enrich TV, Diwali In London, Simran Ahuja Official, Sanskruti , Honey Kalaria Official, Bhakti Sagar TV, Sarita Sabarwal, Sunrise Radio UK plus others.

Special Thanks : Strategic Web Success and www.inndus.co.uk

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