Competition Registration
Registration for the music and Bharathanatyam competitions is now open.
You can now pay your registration fees online for both competitions, by using your Amazon.com account.
posted on February 1, 2012 | Categories: Announcements
2012 Bharathanatyam Competition
We are excited to announce a new format for the 2012 Bharathanatyam competition. The competition is now an open contest, and will be split into two days, April 14–15.
The first day, April 14, will be the preliminary round which is open to all applicants. Applicants will perform live before a panel of judges. The judges will then select five finalists from each age category.
The finalists will perform at the Festival's finale on April 15, and the grand prize winners will be selected by a panel of judges composed of very senior dancers and dance teachers from India.
Registration for the competition will open on February 1.
For more details about the competition and grand prizes, please see our Bharathanatyam competition page.
posted on January 15, 2012 | Categories: Announcements
Sustaining Sampradaya 2012
Announcing two themed programs for Sustaining Sampradaya 2012.
posted on September 21, 2011 | Categories: Announcements | Sustaining Sampradaya
Chennai Music and Dance Festival
The Aradhana Committee plans to hold a 15-day music and dance festival in Chennai, India as part of the December season. It will be a series of music and dance programs featuring artists from North America, in the second half of December.
To be eligible to participate, you must:
- be 25 or below as of December 25, 2011
- have participated in the competition at Cleveland (music or dance), or in Sustaining Sampradaya, or any of our dance initiatives (workshop, the Ramayana project).
To apply, we will need the following details:
- Full name
- Age, as of December 25, 2011
- City, state where you live
- Whether you would like to participate in music, dance, or both
- A short write-up, detailing your training, as well as your competition and performance experience. Please highlight events that you participated in which were part of the Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival.
Please send in your application information as soon as possible, via email, to Gopi Sundaram (gopi@aradhana.org).
We will work with senior vidwans and vidushis to select the participants who will perform, and inform the applicants in a timely manner.
posted on September 21, 2011 | Categories: Announcements
Carnatic Music Idol USA — Finals
After a thrilling series of preliminary rounds in four cities, the Grand Finale of Carnatic Music Idol USA will be held on September 24, 2011:
Shirdi Sai Mandir Auditorium1221 California Circle
Milpitas CA 95035
The event will start at 10:00am. For more details, including ticket information, see the Finals page.
The finalists from the various centers are:
| Atlanta Aadith Moorthy Shreya Ganeshan Veena Ganapathy Shilpa Sadagopan Ruhi Iyer Priyadarshini Rathakrishnan Aditya Krishnaswamy Akhila Eechampati Shruthi Santhanam Supritha Jegannathan Anuradha Rao |
Chicago Chitra Lakshumanan Rithika Nair Saathvikaa Veeravalli Sahanaa Iyer Arun Kousik Aarthi Kumar Keerthana Sankar Hariharan Ravi Sushmitha Ravikumar Sutikshna Veeravalli |
| New York Srinidhi Krishnan Saketha Panthula Sreehari Raghavan Shyamala Ramakrishna Ananthapadmanabha Rao Skandaprasad Rao Ashvin Ravi Shashank Sridhar Shriya Srinivasan Avanthika Srinivasan |
Bay Area, CA Arjun Subramaniam Geeta Shankar Jayashri Sarathy Maya Srinivasan Pragathi Guruprasad Ananya Ashok Divya Mohan Harini Jaganathan Manasa Suresh Parthiv Mohan Shruti Sarathy |
Congratulations to all the finalists!
posted on September 21, 2011 | Categories: Idol 2011
