Kadamb Centre for Dance

Mukti Shri
Kathak Dance (from Hyderabad)

Leela Samson
Bharatnatyam (from Chennai)

Interaction with
Leela Samson

Swati Bhise
Classical Dance (from US)

Interaction with Swati Bhise

Jeevanotsava
by children from urban poor and rural communities of DRIK-Dwaraka

Interaction with
Anita Reddy

ArtMantram Lifetime Achievement Awards for Women in the Arts and Letters

Mystic Minstrel Kanai Das
& Parvathy Baul (from West Bengal)

Muddukrishna & Troupe
Kannada Dindima

Khanak Joshi
Sufi Music

Sai Vamshi
Taala Tarang – Multi percussion Solo

Ram Nagaraj
Shabnami Shaam

Sangeetha Ravindranath
Classical and folk Music

Nirupama Menon
Songs for the Season

Dance Ballet by Padmini Ravi & Deepti Sudhindra
God as a Customer

Dancers

Padma Shri Leela Samson, a Bharatnatyam Dancer who has excellent form in nritta and sensitive abhinaya. Blessed with a captivating stage presence and precision in movement. Radhe Jaggi and Bhavajan Kumar are both part of the Spanda Dance Company directed and guided by Leela Samson.

Mukti Shri is one of those versatile artists who on one hand performs pure Kathak repertoire and in the other experiments with contemporary and Jazz music.

Diya Naidu with her troupe brings in an immersive devised movement theatre peice. A work that creates a space for introspection and deep self observation.

Dance Ballet God as a Customer is a performance piece by Padmini Ravi and Deepti Sudhindra  rooted in bharatanatyam exploring contemporary thought through the lens of Kshtreyya Padams inspired by the translations of A K Ramanujam and David Schumann.

Swati Bhise the first disciple of “Padma Vibhushan” Sonal Mansingh is a renowned Bharatanatyam dancer, educator, producer, writer, director and promoter of the arts.

Musicians

ANEESH VIDYASHANKAR, famous internationally as the “Walking Violinist”. His infectious music transcends age, genre and even nationality.

TARA KINI, a Hindusthani classical Dhrupad singer is the founder director of Sunaad, a music collective and advisor to the Shankar Mahadevan Academy and many others.

NIRUPAMA MENON RAO, diplomat-vocalist, focuses mainly on Western Music, Jazz, Musical theatre and Folk music in many languages.

KANAI DAS, perhaps the most celebrated Baul singer from interior Bengal, went blind at six months but blessed with a voice that is melodious, sad, and elegiac.

RAM NAGARAJ popular singer of Ghazals and old melodies. Ram’s versatility in music is full of romantic Hindi compositions, featuring elements of Disco, Lounge Music, and even Hard Rock or Rock ‘n’ Roll.

Y.K.MUDDUKRISHNA and troupe presents the musical event of Jazz band with sugama sangeet and folk songs with Kalashree, a Santashishunala Sharief awardee.

ARUN SIVAG a Bangalore-based musician and social entrepreneur, specializing in world percussion while deepening his knowledge of South Indian folk instruments.

SANGEETHA RAVINDRANATH is a singer, song writer and a composer, enchanting people with her melodious voice and pumping their adrenaline with her energetic live performances!

Silent Auction

Online 14th -30th Dec

ArtMantram announces its Annual Auction of artworks by senior well-known artists.

As with our successful last auction, we have on offer a few precious works of art donated by artists including Anjolie Ela Menon, Sujata Bajaj, Sudip Roy and others.

This is an exclusive opportunity for art lovers and art collectors to pick up great works at realistic prices.

Please select the work and place your bid with the registry @Raji Narayan Ph: 98450 87716 @Elina Abraham Ph: 99023 73170. The bid has to be placed at the base price or above. The winning bid will be decided and announced on 30 Dec, 2020.

Don’t miss this opportunity!