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NOTABLE CHOREOGRAPHIES AND PERFORMANCES
SOME ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHIES AND PERFORMANCES
- World Dance
Alliance Asia Pacific 2007- Senior choreographer working with a set of globally recognized mentor choreographers
and with practising artistes in Singapore to create an integrated dance form - classical base on a modern canvas- bringing
together elements from across classical, folk, aboriginal and modern dance styles.
- Nanyang Academy
of Fine Arts - 2003- 2007- Re-created traditional Odissi repertoire to suit group performances-
adapted and re-designed Shankarabharan, Kalyani and Basanta Pallavi, Battu Nrutya, Sthai, Mangalacharan and Dashaavatar.
Different adaptations every successive year- keeping in tune with the dancers and the audience.
- Racial Harmony
Day- organized by the Ang Mo Kio GRC- Guest of Honor- Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong- a special
choreography performed by Odissi students of Chinese origin- May 2006
- 33rd Festival International
Cervantino- Mexico- Oct 2005. A six city tour of Mexico, with prime slot at the prestigious annual
Cervantino Festival- an original choerography set to music played by the Singapore Indian Orchestra
- Kala Yatra-
a dance choreography- accompanied by the Singapore Indian Orchestra- at The NUS Auditorium, Singapore- June 2005
- Gaana Yatra-
a jugalbandi with Kuchipudi- accompanied by the Singapore Indian Orchestra, at the Victoria Theatre- Oct 2004
- Jugalbandi
with various Bharatanatyam artistes and performances on various occasions and different festivals- in SriLanka- 1991,
India- 1991-96, Kuwait- 1995, Singapore- 1998-2003
OTHER NOTABLE PERFORMANCES
- Odissi Nritya
Sandhya - an evening of Odissi dance at the SIFAS Festival of Music and Dance, Singapore - April 2003
- Odissi Sandhya
- an evening of Odissi dance at the Maha Shivarathri Festival, Singapore - Feb 2003
- Nritya Tarangani - A lecture demonstration on Indian Classical Dance at Overseas
Family School (OFS), Singapore Oct 2002
- Performances at the
Navarathri Celebrations in Singapore - Oct 2002
- Nritya Sandhya - An evening of Indian Classical Dance,
by Chitra and her students, organized by the SIFAS Performing Arts Company. Odissi and Bharatanatyam - May 2001.
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Water Sculptures, a series of Music and dance events organized in support of multi racial harmony, organized
by People's Association, Ministry of Culture, Singapore - April - June 2001
- Dance performance at the cultural festival
at the Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple, Singapore - Bharatanatyam - Feb 2001
- Mahashivarathri Festival organised by
the Chettiar Temple, Singapore - Odissi - Feb 2001
- The Exxon Mobil Campus Concert, at the National
University of Singapore - Odissi and Bharatanatyam- Jan 2001
- Performance and Lecture Demonstration at The
National University of Singapore, Dec 2000- Odissi.
- The India Culture Center and Udayana University,
Bali, Indonesia. Two performances in Bharatanatyam and Odissi at the International Conference on Ramayana and Mahabharata,
Sep 2000.
- Performance and Lecture Demonstration at The Kannagi School of Indian arts dance festival organized
at Tokyo, Japan, May 2000- Odissi.
- Maha Shivarathri Festival organized by the Senpaga Vinayagar Temple
and Sri Sivan temple, Singapore, March 2000/ Feb- Odissi & Jugalbandi.
- Inter Religious Harmony Program
organized by the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of Singapore - June 1999- Odissi.
- The Navarathri Festival at the Chettiar
Temple, Tank Road, Singapore in Sep 1998- Bharatanatyam.
- Thyagaraja Festival organized by the Shanmukhananda
Sangeet Sabha, in March 1996 held at the Andhra Pradesh Bhawan, Delhi- Bharatanatyam.
- Malabar Mahotsav
organized by the Kerala Tourism Development Corporation in January 1996 held at the Suryakanti Auditorium, Calicut- Bharatanatyam
& Jugalbandi.
- Dance Performance and Lecture Demonstration organized by SPIC-MACAY
in January 1996 at the Calicut Medical College, Kerala- Bharatanatyam.
- Dance Festival organized by the South
Zone Cultural Center in July 1995 at the ancient Brihadeeswara Temple, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu- Bharatanatyam.
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Dance Festival organized by the Pollachi Tamil Isai Sangam in July 1995 at Pollachi, Tamil Nadu- Bharatanatyam.
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Kal-Ke-Kalaakaar Dance and Music Festival organized by Sur Shringar Sansad in May 1995 at Bombay- Bharatanatyam.
- Dance Festival organized by and at the India International Center for up and coming artistes, May
1995 at Delhi- Bharatanatyam.
- Dance Festival organized by the Narthana School of Dance, Kuwait in
April 1995 at Kuwait- Bharatanatyam and Jugalbandi.
- Dance festival organized by the Shanmukhananda Sangeet
Sabha in March 1995 at the Andhra Pradesh Bhawan, Delhi- Odissi.
- Spirit of Freedom concerts organized by the Bharat Cultural Integration Committee, in Nov 1992 at Talkatora Indoor Stadium,
Delhi- Bharatanatyam.
- Annual Natyanjali festival organized by the Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram in March 1992 at
Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu- Bharatanatyam.
- Annual Dance and Music Festival organized by the Nungambakkam Cultural
Academy in December- January 1992, Madras- Bharatanatyam.
- Young Dancers festival organized by the Shivalik Cultural
Society of India in October 1991 at Triveni Chamber Theater, Delhi- Bharatanatyam.
- Dance performance at the India
Festival organized through the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) in August 1991 at Colombo, Kandy and Nuwara Eliya,
Sri Lanka-Bharatanatyam.
- Dance performance at the Rashtrapati Bhawan for the President of India, the First family
and visiting dignitaries, March 1989, August 1990, March 1991, at Delhi- Bharatanatyam.
- Arangetram at the India
International Center, Delhi in Nov 1988- Bharatanatyam.
- Performed in a large number of ballets and group dances
in different parts of India. To name a few :
* Konark Festival - Orissa
* Swachch Ganga Festival- Benares
* Ganga Festival- Haridwar
* Music Academy Festival- Madras
* Shankaracharya Festival- Kalady
SOME NOTABLE AWARDS
- Awarded the title of Natyashree by Ganesh Natyalaya, Delhi, Sep 99.
- Awarded the title of Shringar Mani at
the Kal-ke-kalaakaar Dance and Music festival organised by the Sur Shringar Sansad in May 1995. The title accorded the rare
privilege to perform at the Swami Haridas Festival at Bombay.
- A panelist on the ICCR list of artistes and
listed as Cultural Ambassador for India in various countries abroad.
- Won a large number of prizes in dance
at different levels of competition.
OTHER NOTABLE REWARDS
- Chosen as Senior Choreographer for the World Dance Alliance event
in June 2007 - for the Building Bridges Asia Pacific program
- Many of the above performances have been screened on multiple occasions
on Doordarshan, India's National television network - Prime examples being the Spirit of Freedom concert and the Malabar Mahotsav.
- Special performances for recording at Roopa Vahini (Sri Lankan Television) and Doordarshan - on various occasions.
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