Our Artistic Director Krishna is having a proud teacher, parent and director moment - all in one! Her daughter and student Sia, who played Maya in our show Magical Honey, has won the inaugural Ikigai 2024 Festival with a dance piece titled ‘Let’s Reconnect’. 'Let's Reconnect' is a filmed dance piece, which Sia created and performed especially for the [...]
Cambridge Dance Festival is the first South Asian dance festival in Cambridge. With dance workshops and performances drawing from a wide range of South Asian dance traditions and tailored to different ages and abilities, we aim to make dance inclusive and accessible as well as promising a cultural highlight in the Cambridge calendar. Save the [...]
Sanskruti Cambridge What's On in Summer 2024 http://www.sanskruti.org.uk/bharatanatyam-classes/ Dear Sanskruti students, parents, friends and well-wishers, With summer around the corner, I hope all our students are looking forward to lots of exciting events this summer. This newsletter is long overdue and is slightly longer than usual with lots of amazing memories to share along [...]
Our Bharatanatyam and Bollywood dance students were invited to take part in LoveDanceLive 2024 international dance competition at The Royal Academy of Dance, London on Sunday, 28th April 2024. A brilliant way to celebrate the International World Dance Day with both groups securing 1st place in the Junior category. Proud of the fact that both [...]
Our annual art competition returned in January at Rangeela 2024 on 20th January. Sanskruti students showcased their talent with colour and zeal by creating thought-provoking artwork on the topic of environment conservation. The artwork was displayed at The Clay Farm Centre and judged by Cambridge-based artist Diya Majumder. One winner and runner-up were announced for [...]
Magical Honey reaches out to the stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Read BritishTheatre.com's review of Magical Honey: Magical Honey Mercury Theatre and on tour. 25 December 2023 4 Stars Sanskruti Dance have created this beautiful, graceful, and fun piece, which introduces South Asian dance to children and families alike. It’s the story of Maya who discovers she can [...]
We are delighted to announce that Apple ‘N’ Spice has been shortlisted for a Fantastic for Families Award in the Best Family Arts Activity category. Fantastic For Families Awards are given by Family Arts Campaign, the national Investment Principles Support Organisation for arts engagement and families, funded by Arts Council England. Now in its tenth [...]
This lockdown, we at Sanskruti decided to do an online drawing and colouring competition for all our students. Rachel Riley, Cambridge-based author and illustrator, with her daughter Elin was our judge and we are very proud to announce all our winners and runner-up of this online competition. The competition was done entirely online and Rachel [...]
Our Bollywood beginners from The Bellbird Primary after-school club, aged 6-9, have been spending their lockdown time dancing to "Morni Banke" in their homes. Every Friday, 3:30pm, we all get together on Zoom to try out different Indian-folk based Bollywood moves! For this one, we tried out some Bhangra steps and the children have their [...]
An abhinaya piece, which Sia and I explored together at home these last few weeks of Covid-19 lockdown for NavSanskruti. Sia's first attempt at abhinaya especially learning the use of different hand gestures/mudras. A family affair with Sia's grandmother from Mumbai translating the Malayalam lyrics for us, Sia's Dad doing the video shoot at home [...]
