Wisconsin

Teachers & Performers of Indian Music & Dance

Name: Kripa Baskaran
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Bharatnatyam
Location: Hindu Temple of Wisconsin, Pewaukee, New Berlin, and Brookfield Brookfield
Telephone: 262 744 4252
Misc. Info: Natyarpana school of Bharat­natyam in Madison and Mil­waukee (classes con­ducted at the Hindu temple of Wis­con­sin, Pe­wau­kee) Naty­arpana is di­rec­ted by Mrs. Kripa Bas­karan in an ef­fort to pro­mote Indian cul­ture and tra­d­it­ional values through the art form of Bharat­natyam. Kripa Bas­karan is a stu­dent of Kalaima­mani Dr. Ambika Kam­eshwar, Chennai and has been teach­ing the art form for over 15 years.

Name: Romail Bhatti (Shazad)
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Tabla Pakistani and Hindu­stani Vocal etc:
Location: 2024 Kilps Drive Wau­kesha Wl 53188
Telephone: 262-751-3317
Misc. Info: I belong to Pun­jab Gharana . www.musicbyromail.com call and ask about fee, or class i charge 25 $ for 45 mins or ask more!

Name: Chandini
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Bharata­natyam, semi-classical, folk, fusion, bolly­wood, and vocal.
Location: 243 Royal Oak Ct., Pe­waukee WI 53072
Telephone: (262) 527-1020
Misc. Info: I am trained in Bharata­natyam and have many years of experi­ence. I am a well known Bolly­wood and filmi dancer. I have per­for­med at nu­mer­ous events and venues. I can train, teach, and choreo­graph stu­dents in a variety of dif­ferent styles. I can choreo­graph dances in any lan­guage and I know a nu­mer­ous number of Indian lan­guages. I have train­ing in In­dian clas­si­cal music as well. I have my own studio where I conduct my clas­ses. My stu­dents per­form at numer­ous well known venues mul­tiple times in the year. I am able to work my sche­dule and cost ac­cording to my stu­dent’s needs. Please give me a call or email for more infor­ma­tion.

Name: Deepa Devasena
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Kathak, Bolly­wood, Bhangra, Folk Dance
Location: New Berlin, Green­field, Brook­field, Mequon, Down­town Mil­waukee, Wis­consin
Telephone: 414-477-5693
Misc. Info: Please check www.aarabhi.com for more infor­ma­tion. Deepa Deva­sena is the founder, ar­tis­tic dir­ector and choreo­grapher for Aarabhi Indian dance school. She achie­ved Di­ploma in Bharata­natyam from Ban­galore University and Bachelors degree in Kathak from Allaha­bad University. Deepa has been trained in Bha­rata­nat­yam under late Sundari San­tanam and Smt. Radha Sridhar. Deepa Deva­sena has stu­died the Luck­now style of Kathak under the di­rec­tion of Ms Kiran Chouhan, senior dis­ciple of the le­gen­dary Pandit Birju Maharaj. She has under­gone fur­ther train­ing in ex­pres­sive and inter­pre­ta­tive aspects of Kathak from Smt. Nirupama and Shri. Rajendra.

Name: Pooja Dhaliwal
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Hindustani Clas­sical Vocal, Semi-Clas­sical, Light, folk and Sitar
Location: Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Telephone: 414-465-0143
Misc. Info: Masters in Hindu­stani clas­sical music from Punjab Uni­versity Chandi­garh, Gold Meda­list. Learned music under the guid­ance of my father, Prof. Chaman Lal Bhalla, who is a doyen of Hindu­stani clas­sical music.

Name: Meenakshi Ganesan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Bharata­natyam (Indian Clas­sical Dance), and Indian folk dance
Location: 1413 Dayflower Dr Madison, WI 53719
Telephone: 608-833-3102
Misc. Info: Meenakshi Ganesan (608-833-3102) is the founder of the Kala­anjali School of Dance & Music, and has been per­for­ming Bha­rata­natyam for almost two de­cades. Meen­akshi has a de­gree in Bha­rata­natyam and has won tens of awards and gold medals for her per­for­mances, in­clud­ing the title of “Nrithya Mayuri” (dan­cing pea­cock). The primary focus of Kala­anjali is the of­fering of train­ing in Bha­rata­natyam al­though les­sons are also of­fered for tra­di­tional folk dances and semi-clas­sical dances. At Kala­anjali, Bha­rata­natyam stu­dents get a rigo­rous train­ing in the Natya­shastras, the foun­da­tional body of know­ledge as­sociated with Bharata­natyam. For more infor­ma­tion, please visit the Kala­anjali web­site at www.kalaanjali.com or con­tact Meenakshi at [email protected].

Name: Amritha Jayashankar
Email: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic Vocal
Location: Madison, Fitchburg, Verona, Middleton, Sun Prairie area (WI, USA)
Telephone: 262-212-9020
Misc Info: Hi! My name is Amritha and I have trained in Car­natic vocal music for over 14 years. I have per­formed in the Milwaukee and Greater Chicago area for the past ten years, and have coached chil­dren and adults for annual per­for­mances during the Tyagaraja Aradhana at Hindu Temple of Wisconsin, Pewaukee. I have also won awards singing at the Chicago Tyagaraja Utsavam in past years. I am will­ing to teach both adults and chil­dren on even­ings and week­ends. Please feel free to con­tact me if you have any questions!

Name: Anu Kelkar
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Kathak , Folk, Bolly­wood
Location: Brookfield WI
Telephone: 717-307-5653
Misc. Info: Anu Kelkar offers train­ing in Indian clas­sical dance Kathak, Indian folk dance & Bolly­wood dance. Anu Kel­kar is trained in Ka­thak Nritya from pres­ti­gious Gan­dharva Maha­vidyala Uni­ver­sity under Guru Dr Manjiri Deo. Please con­tact 717-307-5653 for more details.

Name: Ragani
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Kirtan
Location: Kirtan with Ragani, Milwaukee, WI 53217
Telephone:
Misc. Info: www.RaganiWorld.com (website) – Official web­site for Ragani, award-win­ning ar­tist & pro­ducer and leader of Mil­waukee’s on­going monthly Kir­tan with Ragani, one of the lar­gest in­de­pen­dent, on­going kir­tan scenes in the U.S. Named in OnMilwaukee.com’s “100 Mil­waukeeans You Need to Know”, Ra­gani has been fea­tured on FOX & NBC af­fi­liates, in nu­mer­ous inter­na­tio­nal pub­li­ca­tions (Re­cording Magazine, Ode, etc.), and she is the yoga model for the award-win­ning book, Yoga: Mas­ter­ing the Basics (and its two ac­com­pan­ying videos). At age eight, Ra­gani met the leg­en­dary yoga master, Swami Rama, former Shankar­acharya of India, who per­so­nally trained her in yoga sciences, medi­tation, and Eas­tern music. With over 30 years of live Kirtan with Ragani events, Ragani’s kir­tan and man­tra beat songs have been top sel­lers at iTunes and CDBaby, and she is fea­tured in the kir­tan do­cu­men­tary movie, Sutra. In ad­dition, Ragani cur­rently writes music for film & TV and leads sacred re­treat tours to India.

Name: Vijaya Rajaraman
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Saraswathi Veena
Location: 3324 Nighting­ale Court, Mid­dle­ton, (Closer to Belt­line) WI-53562
Telephone: (608) 833 8832
Misc. Info: I learnt Bharatha­natyam and Veena from Late. Smt. K. Lalitha, Di­rector of Sri Sara­swathi Gana Nila­yam, Triplicane, Chennai, India. I had given many dance per­for­man­ces myself and also with other stu­dents of that school. I have earned the lower grade tech­nical exami­nation certi­fi­cates both in dance and veena con­duc­ted by Government of Tamil­ Nadu. I have about 5 to 6 years of teach­ing ex­peri­ence in veena lessons at Chennai before coming to USA. I am gi­ving my veena les­sons to the local com­mu­nity in Ma­dison, WI for the past 4 years and still con­ti­nuing. I am also per­for­ming and show­ing my ta­lents in the local com­mu­nity events. Those who wish to  learn veena, may con­tact me over phone. Clas­ses are mostly on week­days. If there is a need, I am fle­xible also to week­ends.

Name: Jai Sovani-Garud
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Vocal- indian Clas­sical/Bhajan/Semi-clas­sical
Location: Brookfield, WI
Telephone: 248- 470- 0391
Misc. Info: I star­ted learn­ing music from the tender age of 8 and went on to gra­duate in music. I am trained in guru­kul pat­tern under one of India’s best clas­sical singer of our times “Ga­na­saraswati Kishori Amonkar” and cur­ren­tly under the tute­lage of Smt. Arati Ankalikar- Tikekar. I have been awar­ded many ac­col­ades and scholar­ships during her ca­reer in India like Kalyani Karandak, Swar Madhuri, and Govt. of India Scholar­ship to name a few. I am inte­res­ted per­for­ming/ teaching Indian clas­si­cal vocal as well as bha­jans and semi-clas­sical songs.

Name: Lavanyaa Surendar
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Bharat­natyam & Vocal
Location: Milwaukee, Seboygan, Green bay
Telephone: 503-333-9860
Misc. Info: www.aumperformingarts.com Star­ted in 1978, Aum shares pas­sion and de­di­ca­tion in teach­ing one of the oldest form of art known to mankind – Bhartha­Natyam, a tra­di­tio­nal Indian dance. This style of dance emerged in the sou­thern part of India in the early 17th century along with yoga and is known to have a lot of simi­lari­ties with yoga mudras and pos­tures. While there are a lot of styles that exists in Bharatha­Natyam, Aum specia­lizes in research­ing, under­standing, cherishing, mas­tering and then teach­ing the oldest style of Bhartha­Natyam – The Tanjore Style.

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