Place: Minnesota
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About Me:
Having a long passion for DANCE, trained by Guru Indraja as part of School Extra circular activities and started to pursue the art form Kuchipudi at age 11 and continued 6 years with many performances and received applauds from Local community. Then after I have been extensively trained under Srimathi Addepalli Vijaya Lakshmi Garu. I have been working as a “Hadoop Project Lead” at UNITED HEALTH GROUP(UHG) from 10 years and in parallel continuing my passion towards “KUCHIPUDI”.
About Guru:
Guru Smt.Addepalli Vijaya Lakshmi garu is a renowned kuchipudi dancer,choreographer and composer from Telangana India. She herself was a disciple of Nageswara sarama garu and chintha krishna murthy garu in kuchipudi and subramanyam pillai garu in Bharatanatyam. Many students have been trained and have given 50+ arangetram. Many of her disciples are also teaching in India as well as abroad. She won the government talent award in year 1978-1979. She was also teaching other forms of classical dances like Bharatanatyam, Andhra Natyam and Folk.
Dance
Qualification:
Kuchipudi Certified
from Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University
Performances:
Under Guru
Addepalli vijaya Lakshmi , have performed many stage performances in Telangana,
India. like Ravindrabharathi, Shilpakalavedika, Lalithakala Thoranam,
Shilparamam, AshtaLakshmi temple etc.
In Abroad, have
given 28 performances in various organizations like ATA, TEAM, MATA, UNIVERSAL
DANCE DESTINY etc in 3 years in states Chicago, North Carolina and Minnesota.
At present I have settled in Minnesota. Also acquired “Natyamanjari” first
place for year 2014 conducted by “SV Temple Edina, MN”
Satyabhama in
Bhamakalapam,
Devi in Mahishasuramardhini,
Putana in Puthana
Moksham,
Lord Shiva in Shiva
Tandavam
Dance
choreography:
Have
choreographed kuchipudi dances like Anamacharya keerthanas Muddugare, Itti
mudduladi, Chakkani Talliki
Dance
dramas like Ramayana, Puthana Moksha
Many
Semi-classical dances
Classical With HULA HOOLA:
I have started
using the Hoop as part of weigh lost program in 2013. I got inspired by various
Hoop weight loss activities in YouTube. Practicing myself from starting point,
to atleast to stand by the hoop, slowly learned step by step Hooping. I have
noticed, many weight loss programs are depend up on the western Music and
Hooping according to the Music. That is the first Idea, I ever think about to
replace the western Music with Indian Classical Music. From then it increased
my passion more to Dance. Thanks to Hoop.
Teaching:
Being very
passionate to Kuchipudi Dance form and as a dance lover, “Tarangam-A dream to
dance” originated where it provides the training of “KUCHIPUDI” which follows
to Syllabus. Also this dance group offers Fusion/Semi-classical” dance forms
for interested.
Few
KUCHIPUDI performances: