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"Few dancers communicate effectively across the wide gulfs of cultural difference. Jayanthi Raman is one.
Even a viewer conditioned by American culture can recognize what sets Raman’s dancing apart.
Technique, expressiveness, acting ability, musicality - just as in a ballet." Dance Review, The Oregonian.

Local Bharatha Natyam dance maven Jayanthi Raman offers a peek at and primer on classical Indian dance with backup from a live orchestra at the Beaverton City Library. Raman, who's been crafting and performing modern takes on the centuries-old South Asian dance form for nearly two decades, is an energetic and mesmerizing performer. Plus, she also runs her own dance school, so she’s used to educating newbies.....
Kelly Clark Willamette Week, July 2009

UPCOMING EVENTS

September -October 2010 US Tour:
Rasika presents US tour of Jayanthi Raman Dance Company
Dr. Jayanthi Raman's SHRISHTI - Creation: Temple dance ballet of India

Featuring three classical dances: Bharatha Natyam, Manipuri including Pung drummers from Manipuri Nartnalaya and Odissi from Orissa Dance Academy.
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Mark your calendars for the Portland concert
4pm Sunday 12th September
Venue: Newmark Theater, Portland Center for Performing Arts PCPA
Group of 20 or more get discount on tickets. ($17-38)
Listen to audio of Shrishti music. CDs of music track will be on sale on day of concert.

Bharatha Natya Arangetram

Sunday 26th September 2010
Bharatha Natya Arangetram of Srija Pidaparthy, student of Natya

Venue: Dolores Winningstad Theatre - Portland Center for the Performing Arts
1111 SW Broadway (at Main Street) Portland, OR 97205
Please RSVP jayanthiraman@verizon.net to attend. All are welcome.

May 2010: NATYA Dance Academy opened its new branch in Hillsboro in the Cornelius Business Park Complex.
2110 NW Aloclek Drive, Suite 615, Hillsboro, OR 97124
The new large studio has beautiful flooring designed and built for Bharatha Natyam dancing. Open for class registration.

Opening ceremony held on Sunday 2nd May 2010, was well attended and a grand success.
Thank you community for your support. Opening ceremony by Smt. Sudha Raghunathan who was kind to sing "Idathu Padam Thooki" a most appropriate homage to Lord Shiva at the ceremony

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December 2009: Raman receives grant funding support from the Collins Foundation for choreography of 'Shrishti - Creation', dance ballet production to be premiered in September 2010. Raman also received individual artist project grant funding for creation and presentation from the Regional Arts and Culture Council. Featuring cast of 10 dancers and musicians, from India and Northwest. Commissioned by Rasika.

August 2009: Raman receives the Career Opportunity Grant funding from the Oregon Arts Commission. The funding will support her travel to India to study advanced dance choreography with master teachers in summer 2010.

July 2009: Bharatha Natya arangetram of Diya Dwrakanath, student of Natya Dance School at the Winningstad Theater, PCPA

June 2009: Raman received the Washington State Arts Commission Folk Art Apprenticeship program award to teach apprentice Pooja Ghelani from Seattle from July 2009 for a year. Raman is the only Oregon based master artist to receive this award. This is the third time Raman has been awarded this honor.

Glimpse of India: Lecture Demonstrations of Indian Music and Dance: Beaverton City Library. 25 July & August 1st 2009. Commissioned by Beaverton City Library & Rasika. Supported by grant from Cultural Coalition of Washington County.

Thank you Portland audiences for your warm response to the lecture-demonstrations.
Overflow crowd attendance and the excellent feedback is appreciated.

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‘Dance is very much a part of life and very much part of who I am’ ........... Jayanthi Raman
Master artist, Performer & Choreographer, Portland, OR