BharatNãtyam recital at Tyagraj Aradhana in Cleveland, OH

[poonmahe]

Dear Rasikas,

It is with great pleasure I invite you to a solo BharatNãtyam recital of my senior student Joshua George.

Joshua is the winner of the BharatNãtyam competition held in 2009 at the Tyagraj Aradhana festivals.

Venue: Waetjen Auditorium at Cleveland State University
Date : Friday April 2nd, 2010
Time : 6:00 – 7:00 PM

We would love to see you all join us and bless Joshua on this special occasion.

Please find the link for the flier of the program

Joshua's BharatNãtyam recital at Cleveland.jpg

and also below is the website link for the festival information.
http://www.aradhana.org/

Hope to see you

Sincerely
Poonam Saswade

[rshankar]

Poonam,

Congratulations and Best Wishes to both you and Joshua!! Please post a list of the compositions danced to when you find a moment.

[ksl]

Best Wishes..Please consider uploading part of the performance for all of us to watch!

[Cheerful]

My family attended this Arangetram and was very impressed by Joshua! He is a very mature dancer and has great Bhava and his technique is fantastic! Kudos to this hardworking young man- winner of 2009 Cleveland BharatNatyam competition, his dedicated teacher and the brilliant Live Orchestra (including his Teacher)! Kept us engrossed and entertained the whole hour as he performed all those energetic items without showing a trace of fatigue!

Hearty Congrats to Joshua and his teacher Poonam Saswade ! Here's wishing them many more scintillating performances and much success on (dance) stage!

[poonmahe]

Thank you Shankarji, KSL and Cheerful,

It was a memorable experience. Joshua did very well and the audience was great. I was thrilled for Joshua and was humbled to see Joshua receive a standing ovation at the end of the performance at Cleveland Aradhana.

We had one hour so we could present 5 items.

We began with
-Pushpanjali in ragam Sarsawathi
-Followed by a mini Vernam (I converted a Kirthnam 'Ne urraipai" in Ragmalika into mini -Varnam )
-Tandav in ragam Shankara
-Padam (Purdaradas kirti 'Govinda ninna namave chanda')
-and concluded with Thillana in ragam Paras followed by Mangalam.

Tandav was originally composed by prof. Chandrashekharji's and rest all the dances were composed by me.

I want to sincerely thank the Rasika's who were present for the event and encouraged and blessed us.
I will upload some clips once the video is available and update the post

Sincerely
Poonam