Artist
Name: Payal Ramchandani
Place:
New Delhi, India
School/Organization:
Website: www.payalramchandani.in
Email
: payalssg01@gmail.com
Phone :
(91) 09810873569 ,
09810319272
B-35, Freedom Fighters Enclave,
Neb Sarai, New Delhl-110068
Profile and pictures posted with permission from the artist
Payal Ramchandani, a disciple of Padmashri Guru Jaya
Rama Rao and Vanashree Rao. She started learning dance at the age of four and
her initial training was with Gurus Raja & Radha Reddy. She is also an
architect.
She has been giving performances for over a decade
now. Her performances have ranged from dancing at eminent dance festivals to
Academies to International conferences. Her repertoire also includes
performances for raising funds for social causes. Some of the corporate
houses/Institutions which have sponsored her performances include Airtel,
Heritage, Air Hostess Academy, and International doctors’ conference, Tamana,
Unity nternational Foundation, Legends of India and Iqbal Barik Mission, T.V
Today, Mewar Institute,KMG.
She has participated in several festivals in India
and abroad. To mention a few, She has performed for the Kuchipudi Natya
Mahotsav, Kuchipudi Natya Vaibhavam Festival, and Shringar festival She has
also participated in the Bhaskar Rao All India Nritya and Sangeet
Sammellan and at Dubai and Sharjah at the Jewels of India series to commemorate
fifty years of India's independence. She has also been dancing at the lotus
feet of Lord Ayyappa at the Ayyappa temple in New Delhi during the Mandalam
Festival; has also participated In Mumbai Festival, 2007, which is a national
festival to nurture and showcase the talent of young performers of all Indian
classical dance styles. In addition to this She has also given a recital
organized by an NGO Unity International Foundation engaged in promoting
international relations, in Delhi. The “Legends of India” organized her solo
dance performance in Delhi called “Jagdeeswaraya
namah Sivaya”. She also
performed at Indian Immunology Society Conference & Asian Pacific Congress
of Clinical Biochemistry at AIIMS and Lawyers’ conference 2010. Apart from this
She has had the opportunity to perform in the Youth Festival 2010 as part of
the 19th Commonwealth
games 2010, Festival of India 2010, organized by the Delhi government and Delhi
Tourism as part of the celebrations of the Games, She has also participated in
the Nritya Rupa-Desh Parva series organized by the Sangeet Natak Academy to
mark the celebrations of the above. Besides these, She has also performed in
the ‘Bhakti Pravaha’ series of Chinmaya mission in recital titled ‘Vande
Vasudevam’. She has recently performed at the Mahabalipuram festival 2011 and a
large audience at the prestigious Taj Mahotsav 2011. She also walked the ramp
in fashion show organized by Marie Claire and Sanjana Jon to support the cause
of ‘Saving the girl child’. Her most recent performances included “Unbounded
beats of India-UTSAV” on the occasion of the World Dance Day and participation
in a lecture demonstration at Modern School, organized by Spic Macay to
celebrate the same. She has also performed along with her Gurus at the SAARC
conference for parliamentarians hosted by Meera Kumar. She recently performed
at the opening and closing of India’s Single largest Dance Holding – the Mohan
Khokhar Dance Collection at the visual arts gallery India Habitat Centre,
inaugurated by Dr. Karan Singh. She recently represented India on behalf of
ICCR for the “Year of India” in Canada in Saskatoon, Regina, Swift Current
City, Calgary, Victoria, Edmonton and Ottawa amongst other cities in Canada.She
has also performed at the India International Trade Fair 2011 organised by
ITPO. Under the auspices of ICCR, she also gave performances in Mauritius
at the World Telugu Conference in the first week of December, 2011 and
conducted Workshops for students at Quatre Bornes.
She performed at the 4th BRICS Summit at the Rashtrapati
Bhavan,New Delhi in the presence of all the five Heads of States and the
Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Dr.Manmohan Singh and at the FTP11 Conference
held at the Indian Institute of Technology,New Delhi. In addition to this she
performed at one Occasion of World Dance Day organized by Shri Ashish Khokar at
Alliance Francais,Bangalore.She gave a solo recital organized in Mysore by Smt.
Vasundhara Dorasamy and at the Sai Nrityotasava organized by Sai International
Centre at Bangalore.
She has also acted in the popular DD Series ‘Parampara’ depicting the Nava Rasas and has also been conferred the title
of ‘Nritya Shree” by Pracheen Kala Kendra. She is an
empanelled artist with ICCR and Doordarshan-Delhi.
