Trinity Arts Festival

Trinity Arts Festival of India is a festival of music and dance. Trinity Mirror and Makkal Kural Newspapers support the festival.
The festival is open to all.

Venue: Kumararani Meena Muthiah College of Arts & Science, 4, Crescent Avenue Road, Gandhi Nagar, Adyar, Chennai 600 020

The Schedule:

Dec. 23, 2017 - Saturday
5.45 p.m. - Inauguration by Dr. Robert Morris, composer & professor of Composition, Eastern School of Music, USA.
Address by Dr. Robert Morris on 'Acceptance of Indian Music by Global Audience.
7.00 p.m. - Kshetrambujam - Bharatanatyam (Ambujam Krishna's compositions by Anitha Guha's Bharatanjali

Dec. 24, 2017 - Sunday
8.30 a.m. - Inauguration of Natya Conference - Nava Disha. Convenor: Dr. Apoorva Jayaraman
Guets of Honour: Guests of Honor- N.Ravi, (Publisher, The Hindu), Malavika Sarukkai, Priyadarsini Govind
Presentation of Lifetime Achievement Award to Malavika Sarukkai
Keynote Talk-Renogitiating with purposes and Motivations of performance

Nava Dhisha-Natya Conference

Session 1: Repurposing the relevance of practice & performance
9.10 a.m. - Keynote-Renogitiating with the purposes and motivations of Performance-Malavika Sarukkai.
9.45 a.m. - Redefining the Spiritual in the pursuit - Mithili Prakash, K.P Rakesh
10.25 a.m. - Our Ideologies of Theory and Practice in Harmony - Vijna Vasudevan
10.45 a.m. - Contemporariness of content - Sweta Prachande
11.00 a.m. - Q & A - Lead - Malavika Sarukkai

12.00 noon - Sushmitha Anbuselvan
1.45 p.m. - Gopu Kiran and Aashin Kiran
3.30 p.m. - Sneha Ganeshan (Kuchipudi)
5.15 p.m. - Radhe Jaggi
7.00 p.m. - Priyadarsini Govind

Dec. 25, 2017 - Monday
Session 2: Social relevance of the Indian dancer
8.35 a.m. - Social evolution of performance as a profession - S Jayachandran
8.55 a.m. - If we stopped dancing today, who should care? - Anjana Anand
9.15 a.m. - Why does Indian classic dance matter to international communities? - Guiditta de Concini (video talk)
9.25 a.m. - Keynote - Performance as a professional practice in the modern world - Priyadarsini Govind
9.45 a.m. - Q & A - Lead-Priyadarsini Govind

Session 3: Social relevance of dance
10.15 a.m. - Art in the time of calamity - Medha Hari
10.35 a.m. - Dance at the interface of two cultures - Sahasra Sambamoorthi (Video talk)
10.45 a.m. - Dance as a social facilitator - Arvinth Kumaraswamy
11.05 a.m. - Valedictory Address
11.25 a.m. - Credits and vote of thanks
11.30 a.m. - Interaction of audience
Bharatanatyam
12.00 noon - Diksha Krishna
1.45 p.m. - Renjith & Vijna
3.30 p.m. - Sukanya Kumar
5.15 p.m. - Medha Hari
7.00 p.m. - Shivogam Shivogam-Dr.Urmila Sathyanarayanan & students

Dec. 26, 2017 - Tuesday
Bharatanatyam
10.15 a.m. - Kavya Sridhar
12.00 noon - Sahana Selvaganesh
1.45 p.m. - Swathi Athmanathan
3.30 p.m. - Sudharma Vaidhyanathan
5.15 p.m. - Dr. Lakshmi Ramaswamy
7.00 p.m. - Dance Drama by students of Smt. Jayanthi Subramaniam

Dec. 27, 2017 - Wednesday
10.15 a.m. - Maithreyi Iyer - Bharatanatyam
Carnatic Music
12.15 p.m. - Anvita Hariharan (Houston) (Saxaphone)
2.30 p.m. - Dr. Sanjay Subramnaian (St.Louis)(Vocal)
4.45 p.m. - Kunnakudi Balamurali Krishna (Vocal)
7.00 p.m. - Injikudi Subramanian & party ( Nagaswaram)

Dec. 28, 2017 - Thursday
Carnatic Music
11.00 a.m. - Keshav (Houston) (Violin)
12.15 p.m. - Shruti Bhatt (Vocal)
2.30 p.m. - Divya Ramachandran (Vocal)
4.45 p.m. - Cuddalore S J Janany (Vocal)
7.00 p.m. - Sandeep Narayanan (Vocal)

Dec. 29, 2017 - Friday
Carnatic Music
11.00 a.m. - Viswas (Mandolin)
12.15 p.m. - Roopa Shastry (Hong Kong) ( Vocal)
2.30 p.m. - Vishal Sapuram (Chiraveena) & Thirumarugal Dinesh Kumar (Violin)
4.45 p.m. - S. Aiswarya (Vocal)
7.00 p.m. - Saswathi Prabhu (Vocal)

Dec. 30, 2017 - Saturday
Carnatic Music
11.00AM Aiswarya Srinivas (Vocal)
12.45PM Shreya Devnath (Violin)
2.30PM Nithya & Vidhya (Vocal)
4.45PM Dr.M. Narmadha (Violin)
7.00PM Dr. Sirkali Sivachidambaram (Vocal)

Dec. 31, 2017 - Sunday
Carnatic Music
10.30 a.m. - J.Siddhartha (Vocal)
12.15 p.m - Nisha Suresh (Vocal)
2.30 p.m. - Mayuri Vasan (Los Angeles) (Vocal)
4.45 p.m. - J Jayanth (Flute)
6.45 p.m. - Centenary Celebration of Music Composer Shri Sivasubramaniam
7.15 p.m. - Akkarai Sisters (Vocal)