Artist Name: Krishnaveni GurrapuPlace: Virginia
School/Organization: Abhinaya Tharangini
Website: www.abhinayatharangini.com
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Abhinaya Tharangini
22551 Windsor Locks Sq,
Ashburn
VA 20148Profile and pictures posted with permission from the artist
" Dance" is ingrained in me, because I percieve it, as a
medium of expression and experience it as a healing power and a mode of
meditation.." --- Krishnaveni.
Krishnaveni, director of
Abhinaya Tharangini, is an accomplished Kuchipudi dancer & choreographer,
trained under the tutelage of eminent Gurus, Natya Visharada Smt.Vempati
Nageswari, Dr. Vedantam Ramalinga Sastry and Dr.Yashoda Thakore. 
Krishnaveni
holds a Diploma in Kuchipudi Dance from Telugu University, Hyderabad and has
been bestowed by Natya Mayuri and Mahila Ratna awards for her enchanting
performances. She is a member of IDEA ( Indian Dance Educators Association [http://www.ideadancers.org
]) in metro Washington DC area of USA and is an active performer in the
Dance festivals by IDEA such as, "Living Dance-Festival of India",
"Silver screen" - Celebrating 100 yrs of Indian Cinema through
Classical dance, " Nourish Our Roots" - IDEA 20th Anniversary Dance
festival, " An Evening of Indian Dance", " Panorama of Indian
Dance", along with other local music and dance festivals in Virginia. She
has been invited by local TV network GTV in the Women's Worldview segment to talk about the Abhinaya in Kuchipudi. She established " Abhinaya Tharangini - Academy of Kuchipudi Dance " in 2007, with the vision to spread the aesthetic beauty of Kuchipudi dance and use it in a therapeutic form to help the young students in all areas of their development , as the dance by itself is purely yogic in nature.
Besides her passion in Kuchipudi dance, Krishnaveni holds a
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics
and Communications from Osmania
University in India and Master of Science in Computer Sciences from George
Mason University, VA USA.
