INDRADHANUSH DILLI, a three day festival of Indian Classical Dances is a venture by SUNAINA since 2008, to promote young classical dancers who have taken up these arts with sincere dedication. Indian Classical dances are ancient yogic movement systems and it takes several years of immense tutelage, dedication and discipline for a student to master such an art form. These dance forms are a treasure to India and their knowledge is not only aesthetic and entertaining but also yogic and medicinal due to the therapeutic and incidental benefits a classical dancer gets by learning and practicing these art forms.

This festival is held during the Mahasankaranti in month of January at various prestigious cultural venues like Triveni, Delhi Tamil Sangam and ICCR and experiences a houseful gathering of more than a thousand people over the three days. The publicity of this event is done all over the capital through print and visual media. Our sponsors and collaborators have been reputed organisations and societies like ICCR, SAHITYA KALA PARISHAD, SPOWAC, OXFAM, DAINIK JAGRAN, BUZZ IN TOWN, DWARKA CITY TIMES OF INDIA and RED FM.

It gives us great a pleasure to state that SUNAINA (Society for the Upliftment of National Arts of India) will be hosting INDRADHANUSH- Dilli 2012, a festival of Indian Dances by youth professionals from all over world for the fifth consecutive year in January 2012 in New Delhi . This festival not only gives a platform for young professionals to showcase their talent but also gives them the much needed encouragement through publicity and exposure in media, newspapers and among event organizers.

Indian Classical dances are ancient yogic movement systems and it takes several years of immense tutelage, dedication and discipline for a student to master such an art form. These dance forms are a treasure to India and their knowledge is not only aesthetic and entertaining but also yogic and medicinal due to the therapeutic and incidental benefits a classical dancer gets by learning and practicing these art forms.

Indian folk dances are the spirit of India. They represent the culture, tradition and the unique flavour of every state. Unlike classical dances, folk dance is the expression of the entire community and each folk dance represent the joy of the people on various occasions like harvest, monsoons, diwali, holi etc.

SUNAINA Regd, Society for the Upliftment of National Arts of India, invites you to

INDRADHANUSH DILLI 2012
A Festival of Indian Classical Dances and Folk Dances

in association with
Ministry of Culture and ICCR

14th-16th January 2012
Azad Bhawan Auditorium, ICCR
ITO, New Delhi

Schedule of performances

Saturday, 14^th January 2011, 5pm onwards.

. Seminar - “Indian Classical Dance for Health and Spiritual Awakening” by stalwarts of the Indian Classical dance experts from India

· Folk dance of Rajasthan (Delhi)

· Kuchipudi by Prateeksha Kashi (Bangalore)

· Bharatanatyam by Navia Natarajan (Bangalore)

· Mohiniattam by Deepa Chakravarty (Kerela)

· Group Bharatanatyam presentation by Pavitra Bhat and Disciples. (Mumbai)

Sunday, 16^th January 2011, 6pm onwards.

· Folk Dance of Manipur (Delhi)

· Tala Vadya Nritya Lahiri- Jugalbandi between Bharatanatyam and various percussion instruments. (Delhi)

· Kathak by Tanvi Palav (Mumbai)

· Odissi by the duo-Kaustavi Sarkar and Subikash Mukherjee (Kolkata)

· Kathak by Sangitra Chatterjee (Gurgaon)

Monday, 17^th January 2011, 6pm onwards.

· Folk Dance of Punjab (Delhi)

· Kuchipudi by Sree Lakshmy (Hyderabad)

· Kathakali by Probal Gupta (Kolkata)

· Odissi by Soumya Bose (Bhubaneshwar)

· Manipuri Classical Dance and Folk Dance by Prem Manipuri Dance Cultural Group (Manipur)

Entry Free. For further queries contact: Aparajita Sarma 9910943766