Saraswathy Kalakendra Institution of Fine Arts

Huddinge Indian Festival 2019.

18 may 2019

Vårbydansbana. (Vårbygård)

With the support of:

Huddinge Kommun, Embassy of India, Sweden & Latvia.

Saraswathy Kalakendra Institution of Fine Arts, ABF Huddinge.

Fastighets AB Balder, Video Speed Vårbygård.

Ögla, Huddinge Kulturhus.

Usha Balasundaram

In 2002 she opened her own bharatanatyam dance school called Saraswathy Kalakendra Institution of Fine Arts, where her students can learn the fascinating beauty and gracefulness of the Indian classical dance.

SITAR Wizard Shri Harvinder Singh.

Comments on Raga music by Shri Harvinder Singh: When we listen to a raga and just lose ourselves in the music, we are attuning with something of a high and subtle nature that is absorbed by our consciousness while we are listening and concentrating upon the music and its source.

Radha Prasanna (Kuchipudi).

Ms. Radha Prasanna, is an established Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi Guru, a celebrated and admired choreographer and an ardent lover of the Indian art, culture and heritage. She is the founder of Ardhanaari School of Dance in Chennai as well as in Stockholm.

Radhini Pasad.

Radhini prasad is from Karnataka India, now living in Linkoping. She has a bachelors degree in engineering and always wanted to be an artist. Having said that she is a certified professional.

Sanjana Arun.

Sanjana Arun is an A grade artist in Doordarshan and also recipient of the title ‘Nrithya Niveditha’ conferred by Gana Mukundhapriya, Chennai. She has won the Best Performer award from the coveted Parthasarathy Swamy Sabha, Chennai.

Sanskriti.

Sanskriti is a non-profit organization working to promote and create awareness about Indian culture in Sweden. Sanskriti provides a collaborative platform for artists, who are passionate about art and India.

Uppsala Indian Choir

Uppsala Indian Choir or UIC is a unique Sweden based musical choir, which hosts music enthusiastic academicians, mostly those associated with Uppsala University. Founded by two science professors Suparna and Biplab Sanyal, this choir has been running successfully since 2014 and catering various genre of Indian,

Tagore dance and music group.

Tagore Dance and music group created a dance and music platform to showcase Rabindranath Tagore’s timeless work. We emphasis training through learning and appreciating Tagore’s songs, poems and dance-drama etc. and finally interpreting the gathered thought to an audiovisual performance.

Stockholm Tamil Sangam.

Stockholm Tamil Sangam is a registered Idrotts non-profit organization promoting the art and culture of the World's oldest, richest languages known, Tamil and its people.

Veronica (Kathak).

Veronica Tjerned has studied various forms of classical dances from India since early childhood. But decided to focus only on kathak since 1999 as she truly believes you can only master one style in one life time.

Edith Humble (Odissi).

Edith Humble started learning Odissi in 2003, from Ulrika Larsen in Stockholm, trained in India by late guru Ramani Ranjan Jena. After a few years of intitial training Edith continued her dance studies with a scholarship from ICCR (Indian Council of Cultural Relations) at Shriram Bharatiya Kalakendra in New Delhi 2007-2008.

Arundhathi (Carnatic music).

Arundhathi has presented junior programs on multiple platforms such as Bangalore Gayana Samaj, Ananya Sabhangana, Dr. H.N.Kalakshetra and Kumaravyasa Mantapa in Bangalore, the annual Purandara Dasa Aradhane at Mulabagilu, Karnataka, etc. She has also sung in workshops conducted by her Guru Vidushi T. Sharada on Vibhakti Kritis, Navagraha Kritis and Navavarna Kritis of Muthuswamy Deekshitar.

Vishnu Priya (Carnatic music).

Vishnu Priya is a Carnatic classical vocalist who lives in Lund and is currently working for ikea. She grew up in New Zealand and has been pursuing music from a young age of 6 years under her mother Dr. Padma Govardhan.

Babita Bucktawor(Bollywood Dance).

Babita Bucktawor is a Bollywood Dance teacher at Haninge Dance studio.

Peali Juva,Tomas Drunga(classical music).

Huddinge Indian Festival invites you to a concert of Indian classical music performance by Peali Juva, outstanding singer and musician, from Finland with the best and sweet tabla player in Lithuania, Tomas Drunga!

Ashwini Ranadive (bollywood).

Ashwini Ranadive is a bollywood dance trainer and licensierad Zin Zumba Fitness Instructor.

Krishna Priyanka (Kuchipudi).

Krishna Priyanka was born in India and moved to Sweden in 2015. She started learning Kuchipudi at the age of 10, which is one of the eleven major Indian classical dances.

Arun Venkitaraman (classical music).

Arun was initiated into violin at the age of 14 in the carnatic South Indian classical music by Late Shri. Vijayam Ramaswamy of Bombay. Arun has been undergoing advanced training under the tutelage of Shri. Vasanta Kannan in the Lalgudi style of violin.