Bharatanatyam Arangetram by Geeta Chandran July 3, 2009

Bharatanatyam Arangetram by Geeta Chandran. Geeta Chandran, Founder-President, Natya Vriksha presents the Bharatanatyam Arangetram of her disciple Rashi Bijlani. Rashi Bijlani was born to dance! Her passion is dance, choreography and movement. Her pursuit of Bharatanatyam took a serious turn when she came under the tutelage of Guru Smt. Geeta Chandran, under whose hawk eye, Rashi has blossomed as a trained Bharatanatyam artist. But her passion for dance goes beyond the classical. Rashi trained in folk dance under Rekha Choudhary. She has worked in choreography under various dancers/choreographers; among them, Gilles Chuyen, Soraya Franco, Swati Mohan, Garima Sharma and Charu Shankar. She has been taking classes at Santosh Nairs Sadhya and at Danceworx. Through school (Springdales, Dhaula Kuan) and college ( Lady Shri Ram College ) Rashi has performed in solo and group at countless cultural events both dance and theatre. She has won innumerable prizes at intra and inter school and college competitions, including first prize for Bharatanatyam at BITS Pilani and Jesus and Mary College in 2007. Her wide oeuvre in dance jazz, contemporary, folk, and classical made her an inevitable choice to be elected Dance Secretary at LSR. Her ability to catalyse the college dance society led to it winning many laurels at competitive events all over the country. Rashi has also been an integral part of Geeta Chandrans Natya Vriksha Dance Company and has travelled all over the country on performance tours. Equally interested in sports, while in school, Rashi also won the Table Tennis Zonal Champion (Junior Category). In addition to all these physical activities, Rashi has been involved with social work, including volunteering at Crayons (the kindergarten run efficiently by her mother) and at Muskaan (an NGO which caters to children suffering mental handicap). She currently is interning as a Trainee Therapist with The Hope Foundation, a rehabilitation centre that works towards rehabilitating drug addicts and psychotics. Rashi is also interested in spirituality and healing, especially through Reiki.

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