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Dine For Development

Sat. 04th October 2008 - 7 pm

From Classical to Modern India

Bollywood Spectacular

see PDF file

Performers

Bharatanatyam Dance
Nadananjali School of Dance

Mrs Chitra Yogi Srikantha
Contact: 07 32794553

Adeline Sandra Augustine Sugirthraj

Bharatanatyam Dance Video

Bollyfunk Dance
Rachael Jacobs

Bollyfunk offers Bollywood and Hip Hop dance classes in Brisbane for fun and fitness in a community atmosphere.

Bollywood:
A fun and entertaining style of Indian musical and funk fusion dance as seen in Bollywood movies.... video Chunari Chunari

Hip Hop:
A modern and popular style of dance similar to that seen on music videos. The intensity is similar to doing a low impact aerobic class.
www.bollyfunk.blogspot.com

Hindustani Art Music - North Indian Classical Music by Nisha Rao & Rahim Zullah

Vocal singing accompanied by an ensemble of tanpura, tabla and a harmonium

See Web Site

Rahim Zullah is a well-known Indian vocalist/musician living in Brisbane.  He has performed in many musical festivals and concerts throughout Australia and abroad and has entertained the Indian and the Australian community throughout Australia for the last 20 years.

Rahim runs a School of Indian Music in Brisbane, attended by students of various ethnic backgrounds.

Enter Exotica

Band Members Ravikesh Singh aka Spirit-fingers Rojer Maraca aka dj Masala

guest artists Teach-vocals Maria Garcia-vocals

Sounds Like A Indian Monsoonal Wedding and a Brazilian beach party. See More

Sudha Manian - Sitar Artist

Mrs. Sudha Manian started her Hindustani Classical Sitar 

Training at the age of 11. Her initial Sitar training was under 

Sri G.V Sreeramulu in Hyderabad.  

Sudha also learned classical Indian dancing Bhartanatyam
 and studied for Chartered Accountancy in India. 

Sudha holds masters degrees in Music; and dance 

awarded by Gandharva Maha-Vidyalaya Meerut. Sudha  

performed on the All India Radio (Hyderabad) for four  

years and participated in the yearly Paluskar Jayanti  

and won a number of music competitions.
Sudha is  a CPA working as a Finance Manager, 

living in Birsbane.

The Sitar is an extremely popular Indian string instrument. It has a rich cultural heritage with its origin goes back to the ancient Veena. It has been in use for about 700 years.

The sitar uses sympathetic strings along with a long hollow neck and a gourd resonating chamber to produce a very rich sound with complex harmonic resonance an it is predominantly used in Hindustani classical music.

Anoushka Shankar - Sitar Artist - Video