07/19/2026
Sana's Arangetram yesterday July 18th 2026 - brilliant and sublime leaving us all feeling blissful and energized!! What a beautiful journey it has been from a 5yr old Sana joining classes over 10 years ago, a young bubble of joy who would just come to class for fun who transformed into this passionate, focussed, disciplined student honing her skills every day to perfection, especially in the last few months!
The event yesterday was a great success with so many Congratulatory messages pouring in! Sana actualized her full potential for the Arangetram with a lot of hard work and discipline and kudos to all her efforts and the strong support of her parents throughout!👏👏👏
Yesterdays performance had so many intricate pieces - a full fledged 3 hour recital with 8 margam format items, each one that she rendered with such energy, and expression, leaving us with so many goosebump moments!🥰
Deeply thankful for God's blessings without which all this would not have come together. We had a brilliant orchestra team with Chandrika Pai, Santhosh Ravindrabharathy Vikram Raghukumar Ashwin Krishnakumar Hrishikesh Chary that brought these moments alive with their melodious magic! The melodious and heartfelt singing, along with the great sync between the violin, veena and flute supported by the strong percussion support took us all into blissful moments of experiencing the joy of Sana's energetic and vibrant performance!
Was wonderful to have Vani ji come and speak - her appreciation of Sana's technique, training and expressive abilities was hearfelt and a proud moment for all of us!
We had some brilliant lighting set up by Naveen Nathan that made the audience experience even more heightened!
A big thank you to Madhusudan Pai for the brilliant pictures from photoshoot as well as the event day as well - he always manages to capture some of the best moments while the dancer is in motion - check out some of the pix below!
Without the help of all our crew - Makep by Ramya Sridharan, Videography by Raju and Sachin Pattanshetty, MCing and other backstage support by a few of our dancers/families- Sujana, Akhshaya, Manogna, Easha, Aadhya, Arya, Navya, Ahana, Bharati, Anuradha, Priya, Shefali, and others - this would not have been such a huge success!! Finally a heartfelt thank you to all my Gurus starting with my mother and all those I have learnt so much from - Shanmuga Sundar, Padmaja Venkatesh Ramachandran Muralidaran - this would not be possible!
Now on to the next Arangetram on Aug 2nd!!
