Navatman Dance

Navatman Dance
Press Kit

Navatman Dance, led by artistic director Sahasra Sambamoorthi, is a bharatanatyam dance company based in New York City whose mission is to bring extraordinary, boundary-pushing productions to the stage, making Indian classical dance more accessible to understand and experience without removing the beauties of tradition and history that the style has developed from.

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Navatman Dance is available to book for:

Weddings/Private Events
Gallery Performances
Cultural/Community Events
Performance Halls/Stages
Dance Festivals

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In a culturally renowned city highlighted in the global map for its rich abundance of the arts, the traditional classical dances of India thrive on the stage."
- Brown Girl Magazine.

(the performances) were the highlight of our (wedding) day!
- Sunil Oommen

Mohanakalyani Varnam

Kussum Mahotsav TSA 2018

Arabhi Varnam Excerpt

Meet our Dancers

Sahasra Sambamoorthi
Artistic Director & Principal Dancer

Sahasra Sambamoorthi's passion is to re-ignite the fire of the South Asian performing arts within the US. Trained in bharatanatyam by Smt Kalaimamani Ramya Ramnarayan, she has been called by reporters as a "young trailblazer...on the crest of the wave leading us towards a new understanding of South Asian arts in the United States." Co-Founder of Navatman, Inc and continues her studies under Prashant Shah (kathak) and Bijayini Satpathy (odissi) along with bharatanatyam under Ramya as and when possible.

Sri Thina Subramaniam
Principal Dancer

Sri Thina Subramaniam has danced Bharatanatyam and Odissi professionally as a soloist and collaborator for over 20 years. Her initial training was at the Temple of Fine Arts, an institution known for fostering various dance styles under one roof. Sri Thina has worked with international choreographers in the field. To name a few, Mavin Khoo, currently the rehearsal director at Akram Khan Company (UK) and Shobana Jeyasingh known for her creating enigmatic and dynamic dance work in the UK. Sri Thina has spent most of her professional career performing in Malaysia, Singapore, India, the United Kingdom and presently here in America. Her performance were in venues including the Lincoln Center(USA), Royal Opera House, and Buckingham Palace (UK).

Uditha Thiagarajan
Dancer

Uditha Thiagarajan started learning Bharatanatyam at the age of 7 with Smt. Lakshmi Venkatesh in Dubai and completed her Arangetram under the guidance of Smt. Annapoorna Murali in 2013. She then continued training under Smt. B Bhanumati in Bangalore. She has performed at the Indian Consulate in Dubai, at the World Dance Day event organized by UNESCO’s World Dance Council, on an Indian Reality TV show and for the opening ceremony of Indian Premier League (IPL), to name a few. Some of the productions she has been a part of are: Sambhavaami Yuge Yuge, a dance drama by Smt. Bhuvaneshwari Ratnam, Cinderella, a fairytale depicted through South-Asian dance styles by Zakir Hussain, and The Mahabharata: Part 1 - Of Vengeance and Promises, a production by Navatman in New York.

Mitali Sonar
Dancer

Mitali Sonar is an Indian classical dancer and teacher based in New York. She received formal Kathak training under Guru Rajendra Chaturvedi, India and advanced training from Guru Prashant Shah, United States. She completed her bachelor's degree (Visharad) in Kathak dance with a Distinction in 2016. She has performed at various stages in India like the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, the National Centre for Performing Arts, True School of Music, YMCA and Sur Shringar. In, New York, she has performed at New York University, Jamaica Arts Festival & Opus 40. In 2021, Mitali collaborated with female dancers for a dance piece called ‘Existence’, the choreography of which used Kathak and contemporary techniques and was highly appreciated in the dance community. Since the past few years, she has been involved in projects that help people of South Asian origin settled abroad to learn about and connect with their cultural and historic pasts. Mitali was an integral part of Navatman’s Mahabharata, a dance-theater feature film, in which she was seen as Drona & Draupadi.

Ruchi Tandon
Dancer

A software engineer by profession, Ruchi spends most of her time outside of work learning dance. Ruchi has been learning Kathak from Sahasra Sambamoorthi at Navatman for about five years, in addition to learning from Deepali Vichare in Mumbai for 5 years. She has also been pursuing her advanced dance training under Guru Prashant Shah. Ruchi's most recent performance was in the dance-theater film, Navatman's Mahabharata.
Ruchi also danced at Bollywood Funk NYC for 4 years and has performed in multiple shows and events as a part of the same.

Interested in Joining?

Performances can range from short 10-20 minute slots to full concerts. Performances are both paid and unpaid opportunities will be part of the gigs. Placement in concerts and arrangements are via the vision of artistic director Sahasra Sambamoorthi.

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