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Opening Ceremony
(Confluence of Classical Dance Forms)

A spectacular opening ceremony will be presented by the talented local artists, dancers and musicians, in collaboration with several Bay Area dance and music schools.

Opening Ceremony:

"Anandadhara" - Pritha Roy, Mithila Dastidar,Sushmi Chakrabarty,Sulagna Rana,
Depanwita Seal,Abira Das, Annapurna Chandra
Choreogrpahy - Sima Chakrabarty and Abira Das
Music Composer:Manidipa Bhattacharya, Sarode: Ben Kunin, Tabla:Pradosh K Sarkar
Keyboard/Guitar: Siddthartha and Biswapesh Chattopadhyay
Recording: Prasenjit Sengupta, Editing: Amrita Sircar

BharathNatyam
Smt. Shirni Supraneni,Akanaksha Banerjee,Anushka Banerjee,Niharika Kandala,Raechel Lourdusamy
Saumya Kumaran,Tanvi Kamath,Nivya Vel Kamath

Kathak - Tribeni - Dipanwita Sengupta, Sangita Nandy, Pragya Dasgupta

Odissi - Natraj School of Dance
Guru Smt.Sima Chakraborty,Sushmi chakraborty,Bidisha Bhaduri, Mithila Dastidar,Anushe Abdhulla ,
Pritha Ghose Roy,Susmita Guha Majumder,Rubna Rashid, Devyani Biswas, Sushrita Neogi

Kuchipudi - Nrityananda School - Smt. Himabindu Challa

Stage Manager - Jyotirmoy Ghosh

Lights and Music Co-ordination - Prasenjit Sengupta

MC - Amrita Sircar and Swagato BasuMallick

Artistic Director - Annapurna Chandra.