IndiaFEST 2022 - Cultural
India Association of Minnesota (IAM) invites you to join its annual IndiaFest event - a celebration of the rich heritage, traditions, diversity, and culture of India. This FREE event is open to all Minnesotans.
This is an excellent platform for you to showcase your organization and represent Indian culture in front of a 20,000+ audience.
This year IndiaFest will include Minnesota Community performances, Professional groups performances and entertainment filled evening with Bollywood music and dance
Please register here to participate as part of community performance.
Below is the schedule for Community performances auditions and rehearsals
Auditions Day 1 Saturday, 16th July 2022
Venue - Ridgedale Library
Auditions Day 2: Saturday, 23rd July 2022
Venue - Ridgedale Library
Audition Results: Wednesday 27th July 2022
(Will be communicated via contact email)
Final Dress Rehearsal: Saturday 6th August 2022
Venue - Ridgedale Library
Indiafest 2021 Cultural Performance Partners
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Nritya Vidyalaya - Bharatntyam
Pushpanjali is a traditional piece in a Bharatanatyam dance repertoire. It is an invocatory piece paying obeisance to the almighty.Today Nrityavidyalaya would like to present a piece of Pushpanjali on Mother India as Vande Mataram. The lyrics are from the famous sanskrit poem written byBankim Chandra Chaterjee. Mother I bow to you who is rich with hurrying streams and blooming with bright orchard gleams.Oh mother who gives with happiness where multiple languages are spoken with ease. I bow to you Mother India. -
Odia Society of MN - Folk
The next item on our list would be the Paika dance, which is an ancient warrior dance from the state of Odisha.
What many people do not know ... is that the famous Paika rebellion of 1817 is considered by many historians as the first armed revolution against the East India company rule in India.
This dance is a depiction of the battlefield and was used to motivate the paika soldiers who stepped into battle. -
Ragamala Dance School - Bharatnatyam
Founded in the Twin Cities in 1992 by Ranee Ramaswamy, Ragamala Dance Company preserves and promotes the rich heritage and artistic traditions of India through Bharatanatyam. Ragamala’s Directors, Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy are senior disciples of legendary dancer and choreographer Padma Bhushan Smt. Alarmél Valli, one of India’s greatest living masters.
At the Ragamala Training Center, with branches in Minneapolis and Rochester, we pass our artistic lineage on to the next generation, while instilling confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and connection to our rich cultural heritage.
Intermediate students from the Ragamala Training Center will be performing an excerpt of Jathiswaram. This piece weaves together intricate rhythmic patterns and varied accent punctuation to the accompaniment of a repeated melody. This Jathiswaram was choreographed and taught to Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy by their guru, Padma Bhushan Smt. Alarmél Valli. -
Team Naach - Bollywood
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Natyaprabha Dance Academy - Bharatnatyam
Some of the tiny tots of Natyaprabha Dance Academy are about to perform a Pushpanjali, an invocatory item in Bharathanatyam, composed by Madurai R Muralidharan in Jog ragam, Adi talam and choreographed by Meena Janarthanan. -
Natyaprabha Dance Academy - Folk
Senior students of Natyaprabha Dance Academy will be presenting Garba folk dance of Gujarat. Garba is a Gujarati folk dance celebrated during the Hindu festival of Navrathri, a celebration lasting nine nights. Traditionally, this dance is performed in concentric circles and the entire group performs once step in sync, with the beat starting slow and slowly catching on speed. -
Angika dance academy - Bharatnatyam
This song describes the joyful dance of lord shiva. The lord of chidambaram dances the ananda tandavam, holding the deer and dhamaru in his hands wearing the snakes and crescent moon, he dances with his feet engulfing the skies and resonating with the sounds of anklets. -
Chandrani Dance Academy - Bollywood
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Gujarati Samaj of MN - Folk
Gujarati Samaj of Minnesota presents folk dance from Gujarat representing the welcoming of Ma Ambe to bless us with health, wealth and prosperity.
The song speaks about the happiness and excitement to welcome the Goddess Ambe Ma, how we dress up, dance Garba, decorate our houses with pearls, flowers, and diyas and invite her into our homes and our lives; to shower us with blessings and prosperity.
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Twin Cities Odissi - Classical
In these trying times, when the world is facing hardships ,TwinCitiesOdissi group brings to us an Odissi dance about light and hope.
In the song, the word Aalo means light.
Light, my light, the world-filling light, the eye-kissing light, heart-filling light!
The Bengali song is penned by Rabindranath Tagore and is sung by Indrani Sen.
The English poetry is by Justin Farley, recited by Sanjay Mitra.
The dance choreography is by Arpita Ganguly. -
Sasae-Erg Be The Match - Junoon - Bollywood
Ladies and Gentleman, we are proud to have Minneapolis’ own Be The Match serve as a sponsor today! Since 1987, Be The Match has been supporting patients with blood cancers and blood disorders by educating and registering lifesaving blood stem cell/marrow donors. They do this by matching donors, who are willing to donate their bone marrow or blood stem cells to patients in need. They have impacted over 100,000 lives including many patients of Indian origin who have benefited from their efforts.
However Indian patients in the US and around the world continue to have a much more difficult time of finding committed and available donors. To learn more about Be The Match, hear from Vishal on how a stem cell transplant saved his wife’s life and how you can be a life-saving hero, we request you to visit their booth. Now let’s welcome Junoon, the U of M Indian competitive dance group that has stepped up to create awareness for this noble cause with their incredible performance. -
Dipti Musalgonkar - Vocals/Musical
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Classical fusion - Odissi, Kathak, Bharatnatyam
This performance by Classical Bandish is a celebration of the spirit of "unity in diversity" where we showcase a fusion of 3 distinct Indian classical dance forms - Odissi, kathak and bharatnatyam to the tune of legendary musician A.R. Rehman.
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Natyakala Dance School - Sona Nair
A mesmerizing performance from Sona Nair and her group, which salutes the front line workers and highlights how people across race, religion and regions came together to fight this pandemic. -
Nritya Kalakshetra Academy - Sivanuja Balaji
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Katha Dance Theater - Rita Mustafi
A colorful performance by this very accomplished group of Kathak dancers that carries the message of love and happiness across walls, neighbors, and hearts.
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RGK Academy
An intelligent, playful, lovable new Bollywood Musical, the audience is treated to an inside look at a girl's journey to discover different facets of happiness.Click here to learn more about RGK Academy. -
South Asian Arts & Theater House (SAATH)
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Twin Cities Euphoria
A peppy performance by a group of very energetic teenage girls that will get you on your feet and joining them in their steps. -
Bollywood Nite Kick off: Desi Beatz
Desi Beatz brings to you a bunch of foot taping, famous songs from Bollywood, that will get your foot tapping. -
Tantric Beatz
Two hours of fun music, lights and fog, that will expand the dance floor to the audience, bringing the event to it's conclusion.
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