Dear Kalanidhi Patrons,
Anuradha, Lavanya, Pragnya, and Daniel would like to take a moment to thank you for your ongoing support that has helped us celebrate 33 years of excellence in Kuchipudi–in our academy, with our company, and with our visiting artists. As many of you know, we went through an in-depth leadership transition planning process and Kalanidhi looks forward to building on our tradition of being the standard bearer for Kuchipudi in the US. We will be celebrating our founding Artistic Director Srimati Anuradha Nehru next year, please stay tuned for exciting details.
But for now, we wanted to ask you to hold the dates for Kalanidhi Dance’s performance of Bhoomi on February 2, 2025 at the Ramapo College in New Jersey, and March 15, 2025 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in DC. Kalanidhi is excited to bring back our alumna Amrita Lahiri and guest artist Harinie Jeevitha in the summer of 2025. We will have our guest Master Teacher Sri Kishore Mosalikanti back for summer camp and advanced repertoire training for the Kalanidhi Company. Last, but not least we continue to expand our outreach opportunities in the region–many of these folks see Kuchipudi for the first time at our events.
We are able to do our stellar work only because of your financial support and presence at our events. As 2024 draws to a close, we ask for your kind and generous donations again to help us meet our year end goal of $20,000. No donation is too small or too big. We are asking for three quick favors:
1. Donate whatever you can.
2. Share this message with 3-5 friends who might not know Kalanidhi and ask them to consider us for their year end gift. Our Why Donate to Kalanidhi is up to date with our most recent impact statement.
3. Consider bringing these 3-5 freinds to our Atlas Performing Center show on March 15, 2025.
We close with gratitude and hope for 2025. Kalanidhi means the ‘center for arts’ and we truly hope you consider Kalanidhi a central focus of your interaction with Kuchipudi and its allied art forms. Please help us meet our year end goal of $20,000. Your support keeps us going.