Program

FINAL UPDATE THURSDAY JAN 20TH

2005 FESTIVAL OF INDIA CULTURAL PROGRAM

11:00 AM

1. Opening Ceremony & Ribbon Cutting –Mayor Lou Sarbone of Coconut Creek

2. 11:00 Introduction by Leela Rampersad – Master of Ceremony

3. 11:05 Welcome address by Mayor Lou Sarbone.

4. 11:10 American Anthem performed by Sana & Sama Askari

5. 11:15 “Pushpanjali” Classical Dance by Sara Chinikamwala. Choreographed by Aparna Matange

6. 11:20 Hindi Film Song- Solo performed by Sana Askari

7. 11:25 Tassa Drums- Presented by the Shiva Mandir. Aneesh Seegulam, Rajeev Rajkumar, Omkar Ramnarace, Wesley Ramgoolam and Vishal Rajkumar. Choreographed by Romeo Ragbir and lead by Joe Ramnanan.

8. 11:35 Veena –Instrumental performed Usha Venkatachalam accompanied by Mridangist Saheelan Sinnarajah

9. 11:45 Bengali Song- by Shaina Rashid

10. 11:50 “Shankara Jatadhara”-Bharata Natyam Duo- Madhavi and Meenakshi Menon.

12:00 PM

11. Lighting of the Lamp by State Representative Ari Porth.

12. 12:05 Address by State Representative Ari Porth

13. 12:10“Thiruvatira Kali”- The Lamp dance- Jolly Vadakkel, Sherly Thomas, Mary Joseph, Mary Vadparambil, Betsy Vempala, Sibi Kalladanthiyil, Raji Zachariah, Betsy Lukose.. Choreographed by Reshmi Sunil.

14. 12:15 Welcome address by AIA, S.Florida President Lakshmi Subrahmanian.

15. 12:30 “Bho Shambho”- Mridangam Drum Ensemble- Conductor: S. Ramakrishnan

Singers: Vasumathi Vasudevan and Hemamalini Murali

Mridangists: Saheelan Sinnarajah, Vikram Vasudevan, Subramanian Lakshmi Narasimhan, Tejus Rao, Krishna Sridhar, Shreyas Srinivasan, Vishwanathan Narayanan, Prem Seetharaman, Nirushan Sivarasa, Nikhil Eniasivam, Aditya Iyengar, Pampa Narsipur, Tejas Ramalingam, Ravendran Shanmugam, Branavan Varathan, Ajay Dharmappa, Ashwin Durairaj, Suhaas Polavarapu & Shriram Subramaniam.

16. 12:50 “Tiruppavai”-Bharatanrityam- Priyanka Govindraj, Vijayalakshmi Ranganathan, Serena Joseph, Neha Govindraj and Shilpa Sridhar. Choreographed by Sangeetha Sridhar.

1:00 PM

17. Bridal Pageant- Choreographed by Radha Narayanan and Kanchana Krishnan. Coordinated by Rama Suresh. Judisha Chetty-Parsi, Shwetha Gautham-Rajput, Karunya Krishnan-Tamil, Sneha Subrahmanian-Muslim, Neena Chandrashekeran-Punjab, Neeraja Chandrashekeran-Andhra, Liz Joseph-Christian, Sonya Kanacheril-Kerala, Pratima Gunashekar-Coorg, Romi Taank-Gujrati,Vaishali Goyal-Marathi, Nicole Satar-Bengali

18. 1:20 Madhavi & Meenakshi Menon – Masters of Ceremony

19. 1:20 “Neela Vanna Kannane”- Dance performed by Sumita Sankarappan , Shivanee Shanmugham
Rachna Tallapally, Geetha Srinivasan and Sathvika Ramaji as Krishna . Choreographed by Radha Narayanan.

20. 1:25 Mohiniattam Dance- Sheena Mathew, Bineeta Chilampath, Shalu Joseph, Jasmine Joseph and Ashin Kalladanthiyil. Choreographed by Reshmi Sunil.

21. 1:30 “Pinnal Kolattam”- Chitra Ganesan, Hemamalini Murali, Jayashree Sivaraman, Kanchana Krishnan, Uma Eniasivam, Usha Narayanan, Usha Venkatachalam,Uma Srinivasan, Lalitha Ramalingam and Prema Rathinavelu. Choreographed by Sangeetha Sridhar

22. 1:35 “Maar Daala” Hindi film song performed by Poonam Sohoni

23. 1:40 “Brahmanjali” Kuchipudi dance performed by Reshmi Sunil

24. 1:45“Shree Ramachandra Kripalu”- Bharatanatyam dance performed by Tulsie Patel and Sara Chinikamwala. Choreographed by Aparna Matange

25. 1:50 Folk Dance- Jasmine Joseph, Christine Vempala, Thangam Kuttiyani, Shaina Devasia, Jyothi Thomas, Malu Joseph and Anita Kuruppumadom. Choreographed by Reshmi Sunil.

2005 FESTIVAL OF INDIA CULTURAL PROGRAM

2:00PM

1. Phulorida Bhangra – Choreographed by Tarun & Sneha Subrahmanian. Chaitali Baviskar, Jashleen Bedi, Amrita Deol, Mrinal Garg, Kavita Joshi, Chirag Madnani, Emil Parmar, Sunny Singh Sandhu, Anu Singh, Avtar Singh, Sneha Subrahmanian, Tarun Subrahmanian, Karan Sutaria.

2. 2:10 "Valaikaappu” Vignette of an Indian (Tamil Nadu) Baby Shower. Coordinated by Uma Eniasivam and Janevi Ramaji. Kummi Dance choreographed by Kanchana Krishnan. Lavanya Krishnan, Shilpa Sridhar, Sanjana Biswas, Archana Pararasasingam, Neena Chandrashekeran, Sangitha Palaniappa, Geetha Srinivasan, Shivani Shanmugam. Vanitha Anbuselvan (Mother-to-be), Prema Rathinavelu, Lavanya Arulselvan, Sunitha Tallapally, Usha Ravikumar, Prabha Raj, Janevi Ramaji, Latha Sankarappan, Chitra Ganesan, Kanchana Krishnan, Jayashree Sivaraman , Hemamalini Murali and Sita Iyer.Compered by Janevi ramaji.

3. 2:20 “Kalinga Nartanam”- Bharatanrityam by Sangeetha Sridhar.

4. 2:30 “Ente Keralam”- Dance by Geethu James, Nichelle Vadakkel, Divya James, Stephina Pothen, Christine Lukose, Ammu Zacharias and Roshni Shanmugham -Choreographed by Rashmi Sridhar

5. 2:40 "Natyanjali" Bharatanatyam performed Puneet Panda.

7. 2:55 Bharathanatyam- Shalu Joseph, Grashma Vadakkel ,Bryana Chilampath.. Choreographed by Reshmi Sunil.

3:00 PM

8. FASHION SHOW- “Fashions Fit for a Princess” Choreographed by Rashmi Sridhar

Shwetha Gautham, Sanjana Biswas, Judisha Chetty, Neena and Neeraja Chandrashekeran, Sangitha Palaniappa, Karunya Krishnan, Nicole Satar, Archana Pararasasingam, Madhu Nagaraj, Shiwani Shanmugham, Didi Pathak and Rashmi Sridhar.

Ajay Dharmappa, Siddhart Biswas, Mayank Bhandari, Akhil Gupta, Nikhil Gupta, Dustyn Shroff, Dean Johnson, Nirmal Pathak, Nikhil Eniasivam, Ambar Mehta and Giovanni Bahaw.

Rama Suresh, Vaishali Goyal, Harmeet Nain, Romi Taank, Pratima Gunashekar, Bhanu Madasu, Liz Joseph, Seema Anand, Veena Gandotra, Deepali.

9. 3:20 Hoola Hoop Dance - Keerthika Ravikumar, Dhivyankka Ramaji , Shilpa Sridhar, Nitya Ramalingam , Sumita Sankarappan , Sathvika Ramaji , Rachna Tallapally ,Geetha Srinivasan. Choreographed by Janevi Ramaji.

10. 3:25 "Thillana" - Bharatanatyam performed by Puneet Panda.

11. 3:40 “Chak de sare ghum” from the movie Hum Tum. Performed by Nimish Jaggi, Nikita Kulkarni, Natasha Johnson, and Angel Dias. Choreographed by Geeta Dias.

12. 3:45 “Saiya dil mein aana rey” -a 60’s remix performed by Anna Sanchez, Damaris Sanchez, Claudia Cirillo, and Geeta Dias. Choreographed by Geeta Dias.

13. 3:50 “Thillana” Bharatanatyam performed by Sangitha Sahasranaman. Choreographed by Harija Sivakumar

14. 3:55 Carnatic Instrumental Dance- Archana Mathew, Greshma Vadakkel, Cheryl Joy, Julie Mathew, Sherin Varikatt, Jismi Vathelil and Shanin Mathew. Choreographed by Reshmi Sunil.

4:00 PM

15. "Giddha"- Dance. Karunya Krishnan, Shwetha Gautham, Archana Para, Sangitha Palaniappa, Didi Pathak, and Sanjana Biswas. Choreographed by Sneha Subrahmanian.

16. 4:05 Santoor- Ajit Damle accompanied by Sudhir Limaye on the tabla.

17. 4:20 RAFFLE

18. 4:30 Instrumental-Flute-Poornima Ramadas accompanied on the tabla by Paramesh Ramadas.

19. 4:40 “Kavadi Chindhu”-Vithya Balasubramaniam, Archana Pararasasingsam, Shwetha Gautham and
Sangitha Sahasranaman. Choreographed by Harija Sivakumar.

20. 4:45 Yoga Demonstration by Deva Kaur and group from "Yoga Source".

5:00 PM

21. Hindustani Percussion Instrument Ensemble - Conductor Sandeep Munshi. Tabla Classical Trio by Kavita Khorran, Vinit Maharaj and Sandeep Munshi . Tabla, Dholak and Dhol presentation.

22. 5:10 Folk Flavors of India –Songs by Hema Munshi and Chahana Munshi. Accompanied by Sudershan Dookhan on Harmonium and Sandeep Munshi on Tabla

23. 5:20 Bhajans-Semi Classical Religious Music performed Sudershan Dookhan

24. 5:30 Indian National Anthem-Hema Munshi

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