18th December, 2024: 7.30 pm
Margazhi Masa Mahotsavam Bharatha Natyam programme by disciples of our Kala Mandir. ( Sruthi Natanakumar, Nandini Iyer and Radhika Ramanan)

Led by the Gurus of our school Nattuvangam- Natyacharya Guru Kalyanasundaram Nattuvangam- Guru G. Vasant Kumar and ably supported by our wonderful Vidwans Vocal: Vidushi Sheetal Subramaniam Mridangam : Vidwan Sriraam Subbaraman Violin : Vidwan Balasubramania Sharma

14th December, 2024, 7.00 p.m
The Mysore Association Auditorium, Mumbai. We invite you to a Bharatha Natyam performance by our devoted and talented disciple, Dr. Nandhini Iyer Dr. Nandhini is a senior disciple, under the tutelage of Natyacharya Guru Kalyanasundaram.

This is a dance form which cannot be adequately danced by anyone without reverence for technique and for spiritual life. It is an art that lifts one from temporal to eternal values. Dance has special mention in two important...

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Bharatha Natyam is a composite art, whose message is not merely to the senses, but to the soul of the dancer and of the perceiver. Due to this, one could comprehend that Bharatha Natyam is an art that conveys...

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Sri Rajarajeswari Bharatha Natya Kala Mandir, Mumbai, enters into its 80th year. These golden years depict the undaunted and dedicated service of the Guru Parampara to the ancient classical Indian art form of Bharatha Natyam, universally acclaimed to be an epitome of Indian cultural ethos, and unfolds a significant phase of the saga of seven successive generations, which deserves to be etched in letters of gold.

It was the year 1945. When the alien rule was in its dying embers,our country at the threshold of Independence and Bombay, the dynamic centre of Indian resurgence, was pulsating with pride everything that was nationalistic, be it social, political, economic or cultural.

In such atmosphere was founded the Kala Mandir in Bombay by Guru Sri A. T Govindraj Pillai, assisted and enthused by his wife Smt. Karunambal.

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