Uurja

Published April 30, 2013 at 2362 × 3467 in Uurja

About Artistic Director

Viji Rao has over a decade of experience as a Bharatanatyam dance artist, choreographer, and teacher. Her Bharatanatyam choreographies have been called a “technical tour de force” (Philadelphia Inquirer, July 2011) and she has been “hailed as a ‘theatrical visionary” (Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan 2010). Rao began her training at the age of five, encouraged by her father and first dance teacher, Shiva Rao. Over the course of eight years, she mastered the form, but felt a traditional aesthetic viewpoint hindering her artistic potential.

Company Dancers

Company dancers include: Ameetha Palanivel, Kristy Ghose, Neha Nataraja, Rochitha Nathan, Mona Ghose, Sitara Soundarajan and Vidya Sukumar.

three aksha

The goals of Three Aksha include: ~To both preserve and promote traditional Indian performing arts and culture, and to increase awareness and appreciation for them, among Indians in the U.S. as well as all Americans, through dance, theater, and education. ~To use creative movement as a tool to encourage cultural understanding and awareness and reduce discrimination. ~To create opportunities for emerging artists from the five-county Pennsylvania area and to serve as a platform to help promote their work. ~To foster and engage with a network of local artists sharing an open exchange of information and resources in order to further the development of art and ideas.

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