Upahaar School of Dance

One of Upahaar's Bharatanatyam teachers Pallavi Anand recently supported the percussion team on Nattuvangam for Bharatantyam artist Amritha Jayakrishnan in her production 'Dvanda' at The Bhavan in April!

Pallavi was the Nattuvanar alongside Prathap Ramachandra on Mridangam, Vamshi Vishnudas on Vocal and Vijay Venkat on Flute. Congratulations to the Amritha and the team for an amazing production!

Photograph by Sujith Kumar

Namaskaram 🙏
We are happy to announce an afternoon with Sikkil Gurucharan on Apr 27th at Stanley Arts.
It’s in three parts:
- junior workshop
- ⁠performance
- ⁠senior workshop
The attached form gives you the option to pay and book your place, criteria and also asks you to fill out suggestions on what you would like covered. https://forms.gle/ZWKuTrVfFk5rjaKe9

During the performance section he will sing solo and also sing for Natyam (couple of dance solos with Sikkil accompanying on vocal). Hope to see you there 😊🙏

Upahaar's Mridangam Master Prathap Ramachandra, recently performed with his Mridangam students in Croydon!

Upahaar's Sutton Bharatanatyam students Mahati and Khushi performed at SRS Tamil Radio's 6th Year Annual show programme in Morden!

Upahaar's Bharatanatyam and Mohiniyattam students recently performed at The 10th Anniversary of Paththameny Uravukal in Wembley!

The girls presented a Mallari, Ganesha Vandanam, Pushpanjali, Shantakaram Shloka and Swara Korvai, a Padam- Poonkuyil and a Thillana in ragam Kathanakuthuhalam.

Upahaar's Bharatanatyam Students recently took their ISTD Exams, for a variety of Grades from Grade 1 to Grade 5!

Congratulations to the girls for their hard work and receiving some amazing results with more than 50% receiving a Distinction!

Upahaar NEWS: Edition 30 is out now!

Read the February edition of Upahaar's newsletter now, through the link below or the link in our bio: https://upahaar.co.uk/so/50PJHSTA_?languageTag=en

Upahaar is excited to announce a new adult ladies class on Friday Mornings at 10:15am at the Upahaar Sutton Studio. Book a trial class now on our website through the link below or the link in our bio: https://www.upahaar.co.uk/booktrial

Upahaar's Grade 4 Bharatanatyam student from the Crawley branch beautifully illustrated the Dhashavataram as a part of her ISTD Exam Preparation. Well done to our students for infusing creativity in their talents.

Upahaar Dance Company was grateful to be reviewed by Anita Vallabh for our Mohiniyattam Ensemble's performance at Art on The Terrace on January 3rd.
Thank you Anita for your kind words 🙏🏽

A few more photographs of Upahaar's contestants for the Croydon Performing Arts Festival earlier this year. Photographs by Sujith Kumar

Upahaar's students were grateful to recieve the following awards: Senior students Amiya and Diya recieved Gold, Sutton junior students Anchu Madhu also recieved Gold, Dakshina and Prisha recieved Bronze and Vasundara and Mahima also recieved Bronze. Lastly Ananya and Shreyasi from Sutton also participated in the competition. Well done to all the girls who took part!

Upahaar Dance Company's Bharatanatyam Ensemble was grateful to recieve a review of our performance at Bangalore International Centre on December 25th. This section is part of a larger piece titled Dance beyond borders written by Satish Suri for Narthaki. We thank you for being included in this well written piece 🙏🏽

Upahaar's Mohiniyattam student Niranshana Suresh recently performed at the Pongal Festival at Harrow Arts Centre, organised by Tamil councillors in January.


Photographs by Baba Luxy

Students from our Sutton Bharatanatyam branch recently took part in the Croydon Performing Arts competition 2025 with solo and duo presentations! Congratulations to all that took part in this competition.

I am grateful and honoured to perform today Jan 11th - one day before I leave the country - at Bharata Choodamani Academy of Fine Arts - founded by Guru Adyar K Lakshman. If you are around, Pls join in this sharing to support this beautiful art form 🥰🙏
Venue: Bharata Choodamani Academy of Fien Arts Perungudi
Time: 7-8pm (event commences at 6pm)
Regards
Shalini ☺️

Photos of Smt Shalini Shivashankar from Upahaar's presentation of Mohiniyattam at Art on the Terrace, Chennai. Photography by

Shalini has been (at short notice) invited to perform Mohiniyattam at a dance festival on Jan 11th. She would be honoured and happy if you all could join the sharing and to support this beautiful art form from Kerala… Mohiniyattam.

Time: 7-8pm

Venue:
Plot 5 apt k4 17th Cross Street telephone Nagar perungudi chennai 600096
Breeze apartment next to shikshalaya play school

Photographs from Upahaar's Mohiniyattam Performance at Art on the Terrace!

Photographs of Upahaar's final Bharatanatyam performance in Providence Women's College in Kozhikode!

Join us next for Mohiniyattam at Art on The Terrace,
on 3rd January 2025