35th Annirversary Grand Performance

Visit from the past





Natyananda- The Joy of Dance by Pat King and Melissa Roberts

Scintillating Natyananda Performances

Nikita Karnam @ Magic city Art festival, Linn Park, 2013

Sheila akka @ 25th Anniversary of Natyananda, 2003

Thillana

Smriti Sheilakka Deepa Sowmya Neha

Muruga Kauthavam at Museum of Art, B'ham

Niki Udaykumar- Jasmine Cobb -Vishali Krishna

Prasanna Basetty -Rosalynn Fairless - Arushi Kotru

Preeti Venkat - Krishnapriya Pulipaka - Vindhya Basetty

Joshita Suresh - Sahiti Athan

Gandhi Jayanthi 2011

Natyananda students performed the following dances for the Indian Cultural Society sponsored Gandhi Jayanthi Celebrations on Oct 2nd, 2011 at the Birmingham Museum of Art.

1. "Lotus Dance" by Beginner students

2. "Krishna Dance-Drama" by Intermediate students

3. "Thillana" by Sheila Akka and Deepa Chandrasekar.

Click this to view the full video. Audio difficulties with the 2nd & 3rd dances during the show have been fixed in the video.

Thanks to Suresh Grandhi, photos are now available here.

Bharatanatya Arangetram by Neha Udayakumar

Natyananda student, Neha Udayakumar, performed Bharatanatya Arangetram on July 23rd, 2011 at Harrison theater, Samford University, Birmingham, AL with musicians from India. Ramesh Babu on Mridangam, Easwar Ramakrishnan on Violin and Nandakumar Unnikrishnan's vocal provided grand accompaniment and enthralled the audiences. Sheila Akka's incredible first ever Nattuvangam performance was spot on throughout.

Birmingham Museum of Art

All the students of Natyananda performed a beautiful dance drama Kuravanji at the Birmingham Museum of art as a part of Gandhi Jayanthi celebarations on Oct 3rd, 2010.
Kuravanji Part1 ; Part2 ; Part 3; Part 4,; thanks to Preethi's Parents for the videos.
As usual Sheila akka's choreography is very eye catching and all the little kids look adorable.

Natyananda performed at the "Taste of Asia" Fall Festival and fundraiser on Saturday, Apr17th , 2010. This event, sponsored by The Birmingham Chinese Garden and Asian Cultural Center Foundation, was at the Cedars Club (301 Green Springs Avenue South).

Here are are some of our young dancers.

Holi at Birmingham Museum of Art!!

Smriti and Neha represented Natyananda at the Birmingham museum of Art, Holi celebrations held on March, 27th.

Hamsanandi Jatiswaram - Neha & Smriti

Natyananda at Alabama Dance Festival 2010

Senior students Sushma Boppanna, Neha Uday kumar & Smriti Krishnan danced at the Alabama dance festival on 17th of Jan 2010. They presented a Thillana in the Ragam Bilahari, a composition of the late M. D. Ramanathan.

View pics here!!

Natyananda at International Day for World Peace

Natyananda will be performing at the International Day for World Peace at Birmingham's Boutwell Auditorium on Saturday, June 6th, 2009. Events begin at 1:00 PM. Please come out and see us!

Fox 6 WBRC TV interview on April 24

Sheila Akka and Natyananda students Neha Udayakumar and Soumya Kara particpated in an interview/promo for Magic City Art Connection with Rick for Fox 6 WBRC Local TV's "Good Day AL" morning program on April 24, 2009 at 8:04AM. It was short and sweet with Sheila Akka's gentle introduction to story telling aspect of Bharathanatyam.

Natyananda at the MCAC, Linn Park, April 25th, 2009

Natyananda had a 40 minute presentation at the Linn park on April 25th, 2009. Our group had dancers of all ages.... kindergardeners to moms dancing . As usual Sheila akka was very graceful with her narration and introductions. 

Photos available at  http://picasaweb.google.com/rkrishnan48/MagicCityArtConnection2009#.

Natyananda Performance at the ICAB at the The Hindu temple of Birmingham

See them here
http://vimeo.com/2099015 !!

Shaly Vijayan in Birmingham, June 6, 2008

Natyananda invites you all to a grand evening of South Indian dance by Shaly Vijayan.
Date: June 6th, Friday, 2008, 7:00 PM
Venue: Children's Dance Foundation in Homewood
1715 27th Ct S
Homewood, AL 35209
(205) 870-0073
Tickets $7.00 ; Contact : 205-481-0094

Natyananda at MCAC 2008

Dancers from Sheila Rubin's Natyananda dance group performs at the Magic City Art Connection 2008, Birmingham, AL.

Photo by Tansau