ST LOUIS: Soorya Performing Arts, a St. Louis based not-for-profit organization, is planning to bring together artists representing Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kuchipudi, Mohini Attam, Odissi and other styles on one platform again in the upcoming 2013 festival.
This will provide a great avenue for traditions and also for innovative artists as Soorya strives to create a balance of trends between tradition and innovation. The venue is the Clayton High School auditorium and the 3-day festival will be held on April 19, 20 & 21.
SPA successfully conducted St. Louis Indian Dance Festival in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012. SPA activities are generously supported by the grants from Missouri Arts Council and Regional Arts Commission of Greater St. Louis and by the support of Sulekha.com, Enopi of Greater St. Louis, USA Mortgage, House of India, Mayuri India Restaurant, International Diamond, Seema Enterprises, Abhinaya and other appreciative donors.
Indian classical dances have been practiced and perfected for nearly two thousand years. The first text book of Indian Performing Arts – Natya Shastra – written two millennia ago, provided valuable information on theater and performing arts for artists and art-students for many centuries. Most of the Indian performing arts including dance, music and theater have been developed further and enhanced based on this great resource.
St. Louis Indian Dance Festival brings alive this dance tradition to the Greater St. Louis area in its 5th International Indian Dance Festival by bringing in classical and folk dancers from India, Canada, Europe and USA. The second-generation Indian Americans, who have made this proud country their home, will present their performing arts, which they have mastered in the USA with their Gurus. This will bring a rare opportunity for USA audience to witness the great Indian Performing Arts.
Ashwin Patel
