Baithak Series
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Sophia Salingaros - Bharathanatyam - Baithak Series - 19 - 4/29/2018
Born in San Antonio, Texas, Sophia studied Bharatanatyam with Guru Dr. Sreedhara Akkihebbalu from the age of nine. Since her 2010 debut recital – Arangetram –, she has given many solo performances in the US and abroad, including India, Belgium, and Germany. She is an ICCR Empaneled Artist and a 2017 and 2018 IndianRaga Fellow. Notably, she performed a full-length program at Navatman in New York City in 2013, as well as receiving third place at the Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival dance competition. In the summer of 2016, she studied intensively with Rama Vaidyanathan in New Delhi. Also a pre-professional ballet dancer, Sophia studied at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow for six weeks under full scholarship in 2015. Now a chemistry major student at Columbia University, she passionately continues to pursue dance.
Is there a way, some of us can meet and share our art forms? May be in our homes, or our studios, or in our class rooms or in our garages. Can we bring back those times of enjoying arts, which has gone out of fashion. We can change this. We conduct festivals, performances. Yet most of the time, we do get enjoyment, when we see some one perform dances in their own class rooms. It is sure many of us had blasts in rehearsals, than in shows. It may be because, our kind of dancing (Indian classical solo dances) needs to be watched close, not from 400 feet away in a 3000 seat auditoriums.
We are bringing this idea, to simplify our energies, so we can share our art, for the sake of art, in a friendly way. We understand, we are always tie our shows to expenses. Is there a way we can do it for fun ? Can we dance for sharing ?
Anyone interested in doing, dance-sit-outs or face-offs or dance-baithaks , please join us in this art-attempt ? No cost involved. May be little cost involved. Just to cover someone's expenses. In this case, we all know, only art is involved. Probably, it also needs a good heart to invite some other artist. Apart from this, it needs a little time to spend, share and enjoy other artist's art treasure. It requires a small space to cherish each other's art. If people can get together, we can have real blast of art . This comes with no boundaries. This changes, the face of our presentation of our own art forms. We can come much closer than ever, with such small get-togethers.
Baithaks can be easily done by any dance school or a dance teachers - who is teaching for few years and established reasonably well.
If you like our idea, and wish to be in the Dance Baithak Circuit, please fill the form. We will try to bring people/artists of same mentality together, so we can have a good time in dancing.
Please check our previous performances, to see our service and involvement to Indian performing arts in USA.
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