When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.” - Paulo Coelho
SPRING 2020 SESSION 1 for New students:
New six week session for beginner level students from January third week. Class dates: 1/18, 1/25, 2/1. 2/8, 2/15, 2/22. Dance (Bharatanatyam): 11 AM to 11:45 AM and Carnatic Music: 11:45 AM to 12:30 PM.
Please send us an email at samskriti@aol.com for the class code and then register here: https://form.jotform.com/193446649001155
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New students Dance and Music classes begin on Saturday Oct 26th. The six week Fall 2019 session for new students will be from Saturday Oct 26th, 2019 until Dec 14th, 2019 with a Thanksgiving break. Families who cannot start on Oct 26th due to Diwali or other schedule constraints, can start classes on Sat 11/2.
New students Dance (Bharatanatyam) classes will be on Saturdays from 11 AM to 11:45 AM and Carnatic Music classes will be on Saturdays from 11:45 AM to 12:30 PM. Class dates: 10/26, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, 12/7, 12/14.
New students should complete the following requirements before their first class:
a) Annual registration for new students: The link is available at: https://form.jotform.com/92167841893166
b) Class registration for new students (Fall 2019 six week Dance and Music session): The link is available at: https://form.jotform.com/72836368561163
For more information please call: 630.527.1498 OR email: samskriti@aol.com
All families: Please check the schedule page regularly and also sync the google calendar to your email/phone for class schedule updates and new students' class schedules.
Congratulations to Samskriti students on an excellent performance at 'Bhavayami Raghuramam!' Very proud of your hard work and enthusiasm. We are happy to share wonderful feedback from Samskriti parents and audience members! The accolades are pouring in....
"Beautiful! And what an absolutely amazing show! Well done Shoba Natarajan and students for putting on such a mesmerizing performance!" - S Krishnan
"Thanks & Congratulations to you both Acharyas for the love, tremendous outstanding & dedicated hard work that you have put in for our kids & happy memories for we parents too." - S Reddy
"Thanks 🙏 very much for the beautiful Annual show.. Was really very classic performances. All kids did an amazing job and good choreography. Especially Jagada was wonderful." - S Achari
"Thank you so much for giving this opportunity for my daughter and we thoroughly enjoyed the whole program. All the kids and adults performances are visual treat for our eyes. We felt so happy and proud for being a part of the program." - P Arumugam
"Hi Shoba! Thanks for giving Darsh the opportunity to perform today with your group. All of the kids did an amazing job. You must be so proud. Yours and their hard work really paid off. I really enjoyed the music program and sorry we could not stay for the entire program but we are certain it was very entertaining. You, your mother and your dance/music company is helping our kids in this country stay in touch with our culture. I personally appreciate all you do and I am certain our community does too. Thanks again!! 🙏🙏" - N Kapadia
"Thanks a lot Shoba Mam for giving this opportunity to be part of the Bhavayami piece. I heard lot of good reviews from the audience and friends. They loved the way the piece was presented. They liked the way we presented Ramayana through drama. They appreciated the choreography. Through all ups and downs, you have been a great support to me and let me be part of this piece and I am grateful for that." - J Annepu
"Thank you for making me a part of this wonderful piece! It’s always been great to work with all your choreographies & the way you visualize each and every piece!! You are a great inspiration to all of us. The way you manage your personal life, dance & music! Thank you to Amma too for guiding me with the notations for Veena! Heartfelt gratitude to both of you!! ❤" - A Ramani
"Hi Shoba, what a delightful performance by your students, what a dedicated teaching by you! All these would not have been possible without the sincere commitment of all the people involved in this program. Thank you very much for giving us a nice evening. You have given a very appropriate name for your school “Samskriti” and you are doing a great service to the next generation of Bharat descents through imparting our culture. My regards to your mother. God bless you." - Mrs & Dr. Janakiraman
"Fantastic program! Lovely performances by all the kids. Thanks for inviting us Shoba Natarajan garu! I liked the love and affection you and your students have for each other. Very touching moments at the end!" - P Appalaneni (President - Chicago Andhra Association)
"So glad that we were invited and went to a cultural dance and songs event “Bhavayami Raghuramam” organized by "Samskriti Foundation." Performers were from age of 5 yrs old to teens. All performances and the performers were incredible. Their outfits, make up, expressions, everything was spot on. We had a great time and would repeat." - Marta & Dhairyasheel
"My wife and I took our 6 year old to see her best friend in “Bhavayami Raghuramam.” Since we are not part of this culture, we weren’t really sure what to expect. We have gone to our own daughters dance recitals before, so we figured it would be similar...... What we realized early was this was going to be a spectacular show. Between the exceptional young talent and the incredible costumes, we were mesmerized. Our daughters friend’s part was over about a quarter into the performance, so we could have left early, but we needed to see more.... and our daughter was dancing in her seat. We are so glad we stayed till the end. It just kept getting better and better and this is coming from someone who didn’t even know the stories they were telling. The dancing, costumes, choreography & music together created this extremely enjoyable evening for all of us. After the show, I was amazed to find out that children up on that stage were so much younger than we thought. With some of the scenes being almost 30 minutes long, it takes students with perseverance and talent and a really good teacher, to put a show together like this. We are so looking forward to the next one!!! Thank you!" - The Carlini Family
"It was great to witness the talent and hard work that went behind an amazing production. I got to meet some really nice people and wonderful kids. Can’t wait for the next year !!😊 Thank you Shoba Mam and Amma for all the amazing lessons that you teach our kids.. not only dance, music or yoga but also discipline, respect and other important life lessons. Our kids are lucky to have you as their Guru. We are so glad that we found Samskriti Foundation that helps us teach our daughter the same cultural experiences and values that we grew up with. Thank you!" Pragadeesh & Soumya
Upcoming Events
Sat Jan 25, 2020: Bahula Panchami music program at SV Temple Aurora 4 PM
Sat Feb 1, 2020: Chicago Tamil Sangam Pongal festival (tentative)
Sat March 21 & Sun March 22: Shoba Natarajan presents a lecture-demonstration on 'Parallel Traditions - a comparitive study of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi' - Washington DC and Pittsburgh PA
Sat Feb 1, 2020: Chicago Tamil Sangam Pongal festival (tentative)
Sat March 21 & Sun March 22: Shoba Natarajan presents a lecture-demonstration on 'Parallel Traditions - a comparitive study of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi' - Washington DC and Pittsburgh PA
Samskriti is proud to be co-organizing 'ArdhanAreeswaram' a grand Kuchipudi dance production performed by a 30 member troupe from India. This grand Kuchipudi dance drama will celebrate the 90th birth anniversary of Padmabhushan Dr. Vempati Chinna Satyam, one of the greatest masters of Kuchipudi dance. This program will be part of Samskriti's Community Enrichment Program.
"To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it." ~ Osho
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Please consider supporting our year-end fundraising campaign.
No amount is too small. Your generous gift will support our many programs like the Community Enrichment Program, Special Needs arts circle, Arts-education series, and creation of high-quality learning material for our students.
All donors will receive a tax-deductible receipt for tax purposes.
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