CELEBRATING DANCE
FREE Global Online Event
Sunday 8th May 2022
2pm till 8pm BST (British Summer Time)
Global Book Launch –
ENVIRONMENTAL DANCE
by Sam Kumar
CELEBRATING DANCE
FREE Global Online Event
Sunday 8th May 2022
2pm till 8pm BST (British Summer Time)
Global Book Launch –
ENVIRONMENTAL DANCE
by Sam Kumar
(All times are in BST (British SummerTime))
Dr Honey Kalaria
(U.K)
2.00 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. “Best Dance Coach in UK” Award 2020 from Media Innovation Global Awards.
Website: www.honeykalariaofficial.com
SAM KUMAR
(India)
2.05 pm
SAM KUMAR
Environmental Dance
A Photography book
After completing a Masters degree in Computer Science at IIT Mumbai, Sam Kumar started his career with a Global IT company. As a part of his job, he lived and worked in US, UK, Holland, Australia, Dubai and Singapore for over 15 years. When he returned home to Chennai he shifted to his first passion – Photography and Film making. In 2010 he founded Mirage Film Institute which offers training for Film making, Photography and Media.
Initially his interest in photography were limited to Nature and Landscape. Since he loved watching dance performances, he developed a keen interest in Dance photography.
In 2010, he started a unique 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. He worked with18 international dancers from Holland, US, Japan, Singapore, Thailand and India. The images were captured in multiple locations in India, Singapore, Bali and Thailand over a period of 10 years.
Sam Kumar held 4 solo exhibitions of his Environmental Dance photos in Singapore, Thailand and India. In February 2021, he published his first photography book ENVIRONMENTAL DANCE.
ANITA RATNAM
(India)
ANITA RATNAM
Dancer/Choreographer – Transcultural Collaborator – Arts Presenter -Scholar/Writer – Cultural Activist
With a career spanning 4 decades and with over 1500 performances in 27 countries, Anita is one of India’s most recognized dance icons.
“I am in dance because this is my own way of connecting with myself and the world. I consider myself a contemporary classicist.
All my ideas are from traditional sources, but they can also be from readings and from nature: a lotus flower floating in a small brass vessel, a child blowing soap bubbles, even a piece of paper flying in the wind gives me inspiration.
I call myself a cultural activist because I believe in my culture. My culture doesn’t mean just the performing arts. To me it stands for finding out about my roots and knowing who I am. And the classical arts are a very vital part of our culture.
I want to make a difference to the cultural life of India, as a performer, thinker and activist
MIO IKEDA
(Japan)
2.30 pm
MIO IKEDA
Odissi
Sunanda Mio started learning Bharatanatyam in Nagano, Japan from 2000. She has been visitingIndia regularly since 2001 and learnt from Guru Shri C.V. Chandrasekhar. Under his guidance she did her first solo performance in 2004 in Chennai. In 2012 she participated in a Odissi workshop by Shri Rahul Acharya in Tokyo, Japan.
Fascinated by his dance style, she has been visiting Bhubaneshwar, Odisha and learning extensively under his guidance.
She worked with photographer Sam Kumar for his ENVIRONMENTAL DANCE during her visits to India for about 5 years.
She has been performing regularly in Japan and danced at several stages in India and abroad including International Odissi Festival, Bhubaneshwar, Bunvat Festival, Karachi Pakistan
She teaches Dance and Yoga at her own studio, Kinkini in Nagano, Japan.
RAHUL ACHARYA
(India)
3.00 pm
RAHUL ACHARYA
Odissi
Rahul Acharya is one of the most loved and popular Odissi soloist in the International arena today. The world fondly knows him as the Divine Dancer. Rahul is treasured for his mastery over the technical aspects of Odissi and his display of sublime emotions. His dance is imbued with beauty, artistry and precision.
Rahul began his study of Odissi at the tender age of 4 with Guru Durga Charan Ranbir and continues to work with his Guru. He is also being trained in the theoretical and literary aspect of dance under the renowned Sanskrit scholar Pandit Nityananda Mishra. In 2014 he was honoured with the Aditya Vikram Birla Kala Kiran Award and is also a top graded artist of Doordarshan. He was recently awarded by the US Congress, House of Representatives and the California Legislative Assmebly.
He has performed all over the globe and throughout the United States. Rahul has participated in many celebrated festivals as a soloist including Khajuraho Dance Festival, Natya Tarangini’s Parampara Series, Natyanjali Festival and Konark Festival. Rahul is part of UNESCO’s International Dance Council. Since 2003, he has been an Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Empanelled Artist. He coauthored an authoritative book on Jagannatha Puri in 2009 and is currently working on a definitive volume about Odissi dance.
NIRALI SAMANI
(India )
3.30 pm
NIRALI SAMANI
Bharatnatyam
Nirali Samani started learning Bharatanatyam at a very early age under Smt. Dolly Desai and completed my Arangetram, 7 years later. She pursued a 4-year Diploma course in Kalakshetra completing it in 2017. To gain further insight she completed her Masters in Bharatanatyam from Madras University in 2020. Currently she is taking advanced training under Sri. Sheejith Krishna. She teaches Bharatanatyam at the Sahrdaya Foundation. As a part of Sahrdaya Repertory she have toured several cities in India and have performed large ensemble works as well as group works directed and choreographed by Sheejith Krishna.
She has realised that Bharatanatyam as an art is limitless and we haven’t yet completely explored its bounds. She has always tried to explore what more she could do with this art from.
ACHUTHA MANASA
(India)
4.00 pm
ACHUTHA MANASA
Kuchipudi
Achutha Manasa is a leading Kuchipudi dancer and guru.
She studied C.S.E B-Tech at Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology,(JNTU). She studied Masters in Kuchipudi Natyam at Sri Sidhendrayogi Kuchipudi kala peetam, Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University.
She has performed in major dance festivals in many cities of India. She performs solo items as well as group items along with her students. She has recently released ” Kuchipudi Nrityabhinaya Vedam-Moksha Margam” DVDs(vol1&2).
KALPANA SIVARAMAN
(India)
4.30 pm
KALPANA SIVARAMAN
Bharatnatyam
Bharatanatyam Dancer, Pranic Healer and Entrepreneur.
Have been dancing since 2005 and teaching dance since 2010. Have given many performances at leading Sabhas, ICCR and Iyal Isai Nataka Mandram.
Pranic Healer since 2013, in the process of completing certification and becoming an instructor.
Business owner of Srshtee – an online store that makes custom sarees and costumes for Bharatanatyam dancers and many other dance things under our banner.
Married and mother of a 4 year old daughter looking forward to many more performances.
HARSHAL VYAS
(India)
5.00 pm
HARSHAL VYAS
Indian Folk
Vyas is a graceful professional dancer who possesses a sense of rhythm, a feeling for music, and a creative ability to express through movements of the body. Harmonize body movements to rhythm of musical accompaniment. Multi-skilled and able to translate those skills into movement that expresses ideas and stories.
He started as Indian folk dancer in 2008 in Ahmedabad. In 2015 he got trained in ‘Kalaripayattu Martial Arts’ under Gurukal D. Padmakumar from Kerala and ‘Kalarigram’ from Auroville. In 2018 he got basic training in Pole & Rope ‘Mallakhamb’ from Ahmedabad.
Currently he is the director of “Samanvay Dance Company”. Through which he is teaching as a freelancing dancer & choreographer in different schools, colleges and with many well-known dance companies in India and abroad imparting his Indian folk, Kalaripayattu, Bollywood & Indian contemporary, rope & pole mallakhamb dance knowledge. He has done more than 200 shows, competitions, and choreographies nationally and internationally
ARUN PRADHAN
(India)
5.30 pm
ARUN KUMAR PRADHAN
Odissi
Arun Kuman Pradhan is a leading Oissi dancer and guru living in Bhuvaneshwar. He learnt Odissi from Padmashree guru Gangadhar Pradhan and guru Smt Aruna Mohanty. He is a National senior scholarship holder. He completed his Masters degree in Dance from Culture University of Odisha.
He has performed in many important dance festivals in Odisha including Konark dance and music festival and Dhauli Kalinga Maotsav. He has also performed in a few other states of India as well as overseas. He is a Odissi guru at some of the leading Odissi dance schools in Odissa. In addition, he is working as a dance teacher in DAV public school.
ANANDINI DASI
(Argentina)
6.00 pm
ANANDINI DASI
Odissi
Anandini Dasi is from Argentina. She is Indian classical dance student.
She studied BHARATANATYAM from Guru Padmasrshree Adyar K. Laksmana and Guru Sri CV Chandrashekara both from Chennai.
Later she studied Odissi at Venunaad Kalakendra Vrindavan. She also learnt Odissi from many senior gurus including Padmashree Guru Gangadhar Pradhan, Smt. Kunjalata Misra Guru Sri Pratap Narayan (Vrindavan). Smt. Sujata Mohapatra (Bhubaneshwar) .
She is learning at Roudrakshya Foundation in Bhuvaneshwar.
For a short while she worked at Sutra Dance Theatre
Currently she is the Founder/Artistic Director at Rasamrit Natya Yoga.
KARINA PAIS
(Ecuador)
6.30 pm
Karina Pais
Conscious Movement
Karina Pais is a professional visual artist with a body of work spanning a variety of media. She has always been passionate about dancing, and has found in Conscious Movement practices a natural way to express her true self while helping others in their journey to free expression.
She has been trained and certified in modalities such as JourneyDance™ and Prayerdanse, and taken several 5Rhythms classes and workshops.
Wai Ching Lee
(Ecuador)
7.00 pm
Dame Rev. Dr. Wai Ching Lee
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.
Sharron Rose
(U.S.A)
Sharron Rose
Durga: Radiant Goddess of Power and Beauty
Sharron Rose, M.A. Ed., president of Sacred Mysteries Productions, is a filmmaker, choreographer, composer, author and teacher. As a scholar in world dance, music and religion, her training and research includes ballet, modern dance, Kathak, Middle Eastern, Flamenco and African dance. She is also known for her unique reconstruction of the dance, music and ritual of Ancient Egypt. 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.
Sharron has lectured, performed and presented her films in numerous universities, spiritual centers, cultural organizations and museums and was a consultant to the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the author of The Path of the Priestess: A Guidebook for Awakening the Divine Feminine. and is currently completing a cd, The Nectar of Bliss dedicated to the healing power of the Divine Feminine in cultures throughout the world.
www.quantumqimovie.com
THANK YOU
Technical Director – Nishit Kotak
Creative Director – Sarita Menon
Production Director/Anchor – Dr Honey Kalaria
Kitchen Episodes Producer/Host – Seema Bhatia
Luxembourg Producer/Host – Kiran Robinson
Mauritius Co-Ordinator/Host – Saivani Samboo
U.S.A Co-Ordinator/Host – Sharron Rose
Host Director – Simran Ahuja
Media Team – Kesh Morjaria
Host Team – Dr Honey Kalaria
Back Up Team – Dr Lalit Sodha, Dr Sheila Dobee, Dr Milen Shah, Dr Wai Ching Lee, Shivali Ruparelia, Ravi & Sushma Bhanot, Deepa Vithlani and Shivani Vithlani.
Facilitator Team – Various
Channel Partners – Hindu Forum of Europe, MentalHealth_Connect, Hindu Matters in Britain, Enrich TV, Sanskruti, Simran Ahuja Official, Diwali in London, Bhakti Sagar TV, Sarita Sabrawal Official….
Special Thanks : Strategic Web Success and www.inndus.co.uk
