Panel Discussion - Ruchika Social Service Organization

Ruchika (RSSO), founded in 1985 by Inderjit Khurana, has dedicated itself to the ideal that “if a child cannot come to school,
then the school must come to the child”.
Visit: www.ruchika.org
Panel Discussion
Our youth are the biggest agents of change.
Today, Nicole Sanchez, Moderator and Executive Director of New
Global Citizens, and panelists from the participating non-profit organizations below, will focus on resources available to youth, in particular
youth of Indian origin in the USA, to create positive social change in
India and the world over. Explore the Challenges and the Opportunities.
New Global Citizen's mission is to mobilize young people in the United
States to help solve the world's biggest problems.
Panelists Nicole Sanchez and Amanda Gelender
Visit: www.newglobalcitizens.org
ICA’s vision is a secure life for every Indian, in a sustainable environment and a just society. Development through innovation. ICA has been
a Friend of Ruchika for 15 years.
Panelist: Lata Patil
Visit: www.icaonline.org
Asha for Education is a secular organization with a mission to catalyze
socio-economic change in India through the education of underprivileged
children and education is the prerequisite for socio economic change.
Panelist: Netika Ravel
Visit: www.ashanet.org
Emceed by
Contemporary and Folk Dances
3pm - 6 pm
Reshma Dordi
ShowBizIndiaTV
Sheetal Singhal
Srividya Eashwar
Nirmal Gosavi
Shalini Dodds
Ranjani Manda
Vinita P. Kumar
Vibha's vision is to ensure that every underprivileged child attains his
or her right to education, health and opportunity. Vibha is a movement
that empowers you to make a difference.
Panelists: Raja Gobi, Mukesh Mirchandani
Visit: www.vibha.org
India Literacy Project is dedicated to the cause of literacy in India and
we strive to be a catalyst for 100% literacy in India.
Panelist: S Padmaja
Visit: www.ilpnet.org
International Gurukul invites you to take a journey of personality and
humanity development through learning Dance, Yoga, Meditation, Music,
Aerobics, Theater and other forums.
Panelist: Manoj Joshi
Visit: www.igurukul.org
Our mission is to transform the lives of academically brilliant and financially needy students in India and empower
them to be successful.
Panelist: Abha Shukla
Visit: www.ffe.org
Nilu and Jay
Panel discussion led by
Nicole Sanchez of “New Global Citizens”
with Bay Area non-profits.
Program
Introductions by Lata Patil, Sheetal Singhal
Reshma gets the show going
SThree Productions
Aerodance
NNJ Dancers
Xpressions
Intermission (20 mts)
Panel Discussion by Nicole Sanchez (20 mts)
Stepz
Nupur Folk Dance Academy
Aavartan
Closing remarks by Anoop Khurana
New Global Citizens
New Global Citizen's mission is to mobilize young people in the United
States to help solve the world's biggest problems. Their programs
motivate members of Generation Y (born 1980-1995) to ask "Why
does half the world live in poverty? Why don't 1.2 billion people have
access to clean water? Why do 1,200 children die every hour from
preventable diseases?"
America's Generation Y is the wealthiest, most connected and most
diverse generation in our history. At nearly 71 million, they collectively control over $211 billion in spending annually. They represent
nearly every country, religion, and language on earth. Given all these
factors, young people are uniquely poised to tackle the world's
greatest problems.
Nicole Sanchez, Executive Director of New Global Citizens, will discuss
how you can get started and help in this effort !
STEPZ
STEPZ is a premier dance institution specializing in teaching Bollywood dance.
STEPZ is led by CEO, Shalini Dodds, who is a technologist and entrepreneur,
trained in Classical Indian dance since the age of five, and a ballroom dancer.
STEPZ offers dance and fitness instruction via in-class settings as well as convenient instruction via DVDs. Choreography classes for adults and kids are
based on remixed Bollywood music set to our original and fast-paced choreography. The moves are creative and hip, the songs are the latest hits and the
class is a fun-packed hour of song and dance! Dance fitness classes, aptly
named STEPZ N' SPEED, are an intense one hour workout for every part of
your body. They not only get your heart rate up, but are specially designed to
tone and firm. STEPZ is a very friendly community and we take pride in the
fact our members have found life-long friendships within STEPZ. At STEPZ,
dance and music are treated like the universal languages that they are, and
that every person in the world is capable of being fit, of expressing their
creativity and enjoying dance. Visit: www.mystepz.com
♦ Fanaa
Dancers: Ila Dwivedi, Ravina Gujral, Ankur Duggal, Shikha Avancha, Sasha
Smith,
Tamanna Ahluwalia, Uma Krishnan, Nidhi Manoj, Arya Natarajan
♦ Rock N Roll Soniye
Dancers: Amitabh Bhargava, Neelima Bandla, Ravi Shekar, Shalini Dodds,
Leena Kantawala, Vrishab Sikand, Nandini Rajan
Aavartan
Vinita P. Kumar has a great passion for music and dance . Everything in life
has a rhythm and this concept was the basis of foundation of Aavartan.
Aavartan means "Cycle of beats". Aavartan provides a forum for kids and
adults alike to feel the beats and have fun with dancing.
♦
Rock and Roll
Dancers: Sarina Raghavan, Azita Rahman, Madhu Nori, Shruti Goli,
Karina Dandia, Kalpita Prabhu, Rachna Goli, Ridhaa Sambandan,
Gauri Deshpande, Manasi Patwa
♦
Moms Dance: Ankhiyan na maar
Dancers: Samhita Dash, Sangeeta Nandwani, Shyamala Eswari, Usha Panja,
Varsha Kumar, Parul Agarwal, Tabbasum Gupta, Vandana Pathak, Jayashree
Mishra, Madhavi Jagdish, Maneesha Chandra, Bhargavi Gohil
♦ All About Shahrukh Khan
Dancers: Anooshka Trisha , Sahithi Battini, Nikitha Reddy, Tanaya Deb, Kavya
Gowda, Sreya Gowda, Likhita Kommidi, Ayush Kumar, Anwesh Thakur, Jay
Patel, Sagar Jain, Sahil Jain, Vivek Mahesh, Sanjoy Deb, Anuj Verma,
Aashna Sinha
Nupur Folk Dance Academy
SThree Productions
Nupur Folk Dance Academy was established in September 1999 by Nirmal Gosavi and has since been one of the leading folk dance institutes
in the Bay area, California. The Academy works to preserve and present folk dance traditions of India.
SThree Productions was founded by Sheetal Singhal and offers a blend
of Indian Semi-classical, folk, freestyle, and film dance. She strives
to instill a love of Indian dance and music in her students, no matter
what their race, gender or age. Having come to the US as a teenager
Sheetal has been active in choreographing Indian folk dances since her
college days at Santa Clara University. She is trained as a Bharatanatyam dancer and had her arangetram under the guidance of Guru Vishal
Ramani of Shri Krupa Dance Company. SThree has been recognized as
a vibrant dance company through the many awards they have won in
several bay area Dance Competitions.
The students of the academy have till date learned and presented folk
dances from different states of India, like Maharashtra, Gujrat, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kashmir, Punjab,Nagaland,Goa to
name a few. The school has won numerous awards for best dance, choreography and costumes in competitions held in the bay area since
1999.
In addition to the folk dances, the students at the Academy also have
the opportunity to learn about the Indian culture through dances representing different traditional themes, such as Festivals of India,
Weddings of India, Village life in India etc., which they present
through dances in the annual performance.
Visit: www.nupurfolkdance.org
♦
Bengali Dance: To mark the festive occasions, the ladies perform
different kinds of dances, which turn out to be vibrant along with
the sweet melody of their songs. This is one such dance, which is
based on typical Rabindra Sangeet and portrays the graceful and
swaying movements typical of a Bengali dance.
Dancers: Tulika Agarwala,Vineeta Johary,Anjali Srivatsa,
Shobha Prakash, Rajashri Deshpande, Rachna Jain, Rittu Sharma,
Anita Sathe, Sukanya Pushkarna, Pratibha Kamath
♦
Kashmiri dance: This dance is a combination of the traditional ruf
and hikkat dances of Kashmiri women, which show delicate movements done in two rows facing each other or in circles often done
holding each others hands. The music takes you to the picturesque
Kashmir region of India.
Dancers: Gunjan Parkhe, Shaanika Subramanyam, Areej Khalid,
Swetha Repakula, Avantika Abhyankar, Ishita Arora,
Anjalika Goyal, Shweta Tendolkar, Sitara Pendyala,
Surabhi Srivastava, Srishti Agrawal, Manali Sawant
Visit: www.meeramasi.com/sthree.htm
”Bhangra is a dance that expresses all human endeavors with nature
and with each other” According to a folk tradition Bhangra comes from
the word “Bhaun-gar”, which means action on land. Farmers and peasants in the state of Punjab do the Bhangra in celebration of a good
harvest. The dance is done to give thanks to mother earth “Bhuan” and
to celebrate their own endeavor and effort, their hard work and toil.
The celebrations and dancing of Punjab can be traced back to the Mahabharata and even some hints of it’s exist in the Rig Veda. Today the
Bhangra is done everywhere from an Indian movie, to a cultural program to the clubs of San Francisco. This afternoon SThree Productions will give you a glimpse of Bhangra in a few of the above settings;
Patriotic, Popular and Traditional.
♦
Rang De Basanti
Dancers: Aman Agrawal, Amit Aggarwal, Arjun Gupta, Priyesh Chand,
Ruchi Aggarwal, Revati Rashingkar, Anika Kumar, Meghan Shah
♦
Where’s the party/Rock n Roll
Dancers: Meha Gupta, Pooja Chand, Saira Ahuja, Anisha Agrawal,
Saachi Gupta, Payal Makhijani, Nina Singhal, Esha Singhal
♦
Bhangra
Dancers: Ronak Shah, Suraj Dave, Shelly Goswami, Kanika Laroia,
Kunal Laroia, Priya Jaggi, Anirudh Choudhary, Mohit Kochar,
Simranjit Rai, Anchal Singhal
Xpressions
Aerodance
Aerodance teaches exhaustive, vibrant, passionate, fun, and social dance
with particular attention given to the movements delivered with speed. This
school teaches Indian Folk, Devotional, Semi-classical and Bollywood types of
dances. Dance lessons are offered to kids from as young as 3 and up.
This school of dance was started by Ranjani Manda in 1998. She obtained
advanced training in Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi for 12 years, which is reflected in her choreography that is marked with a balanced fusion of contemporary dance and classical steps; thus evolving into Semi-Classical dance
form. Having won several accolades in major dance competitions, Aerodance stands out as one of the best Semi-classical dance schools in the Bay
Area.
♦
Piyu Bole: Parineeta
Dancers: Nikita Redkar, Aarushi Ratna, Shivali Nagpal,
Priyanka Ravindran, Anika Reddy, Mehaa Mekala
♦
Madhuban mein radhika
Dancers: Kimaya Chalpe, Neha Dabke, Ananya Krishnaswamy,
Aditi Gopalan, Aunla Gopalan
♦
Dholi Taro Dhol Baje
Dancers: Vidya Vemula, Sujatha Balu, Lata Dayalan, Jaya Jagale, Purnima
Kanchumurthi, Ashu Singh, Mini Guliani
♦
Rang Deni
Dancers: Sindhu Ravuri, Nidhi Rao, Anvi Guliani, Meghana Vemula,
Anula Gopalan, Mahika Valluri
NNJ Dancers
NNJ Dancers is a Dance Academy dedicated to people who appreciate and
enjoy the fine art of dancing. The founders Nilu and Jay are committed to
preserving the integrity of the folk dances of North India while creating
energetic intricately choreographed dances that appeal to all ages. They
have a special knack for taking novices and turning them into expert dancers
much like a sculptor chisels stone into a beautiful work of art. The result has
been obvious as NNJ Dancers have won several dance competitions in various
categories over the last couple of years. If you want to dance like a star
come to NNJ Dancers. Visit: www.nnjdancers.com
♦
Bhangra
Dancers: Prakhardeep Singh, Hiranyadeep Singh, Josh Nagra,
Jordan Nagra, Manvinder Singh, Arvinder Singh, Varun Yuhanna,
Chetan Parmar, Rahul Chopra, Rohit Chopra, Keeny Summan, Taran Summan,
Simran Nagshain
Xpressions, the dance school with a difference, was founded by Srividya Eashwar in an attempt to unfold India’s cultural traditions to the young generation
in the Bay Area, and to encourage them to learn, respect and admire the rich
culture of Indian performing arts. Srividya Eashwar, with a vivacious yet humble demeanor, has built a tradition of innovative ways of teaching her students.
Her dedication and creativity always stands out in dances choreographed by
her – simple, elegant, clean yet rhythmic and pulsating. Srividya uses her years
of experience in classical, folk and contemporary dances to create ingenious
combinations of these for her students. Her students not only learn the basic
steps and gestures of different types of dances but also the subtle and meaningful hand and facial expressions. The spirited performances of dancers and
the many accolades they have won is a testimony of the Xpressions tradition.
Visit: www.xpressionsdancemusic.com
Through our medley “Des Rangila” (colorful country) we plan to take you on a
rhythmic journey through the different states of India and catch the beats of
the Indian culture through folk and contemporary dances.
♦
Des Rangila – A salute to the unity in diversity in India and among Indians.
Dancers – Sanjana Surkund, Pallavi Rao, Swetha Balaji, Kavitha Ramani, Navya
Maitri Konda
♦ State Kashmir – Bhumbro – A very simple folk song sung by the children in
Kashmir was widely popularised in the Hindi movie “Mission Kashmir”.
Dancers – Divya Kriplani, Nikitha Ramachandran, Riddhi Sangam, Mallika Varkhedi,
Riya Jorapur, Amritha Anand
♦
State Gujarat - Chab Dance - The gopis dance with the baskets that they
use for selling butter in the market and lovingly talk and complain about Krishna.
Dancers – Meghna Kolli , Rachna Mandalam, Priyanka Krishnamurthi, Rachna Prasad
♦ State Maharashtra – Koli Dance - This song presents before you a glimpse
of life of the Koli fishing community.
Dancers – Tania Godbole, Eesha Moona, Kavya Bellam, Vaishnavi Vedantam,
Meera Ravichandran, Vedya Spurthi Konda, Manasi Gopisetty
♦
Kangna Re - Folk songs from different states are often included or adapted
to suit the theme of the story in a movie. The lyrics and the music stay true to the
folk origins with some variations.
Dancers: Shivani Singh, Avni Madhani, Radhika Bhatnagar, Shreya Munnangi,
Manasa Makineni, Shivani Bhandarkar,Manasa Gogineni
♦
State Rajashtan – Ghoomar Dance - It derives its name from the word
‘Ghooma’ which shows off its characteristic spins and swirling skirts.
Dancers – Trishika Shetty, Soumya Banna, Ridhi Arun, Karina Kak
♦
State Andhra Pradesh – Lambadi Dance - It is the dance of gypsies who
wear colorful costumes and chunky silver jewelry and are inspired by the movements associated with daily tasks like harvesting, planting and sowing.
Dancers – Sanika Puranik, Shivani Soni, Mansi Soni, Nandika Donth