Navatman Dance
Company Bios
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Sahasra Sambamoorthi
Artistic Director Sahasra Sambamoorthi is currently co-president at Navatman. She learned Bharatanatyam under Guru Smt Kalaimamani Ramya Ramnarayan and is the recipient of various awards including the NJSCA Folk Arts Apprenticeship. Following her graduation from Columbia University and learning much from the semi-classical troupe there Taal, she created Navatman Dance in an attempt to explore the boundaries of Bharatanatyam. Currently, she is learning Kathak from Ramya Agrawal and has taken continues to work in odissi with Bijayini Satpathy, Surupa Sen, and Pavitra Bhatt (Nrityagram) and Kuchipudi with Kishore Mosalikanti. |
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Maya Kumar
Maya Kumar’s love for dance started at a young age under the tutelage of Smt. Mrinalini Sadananda, director of the Kuchipudi dance school Kalamandapam in Washington, DC. She continued to develop as a dancer and teacher throughout college as part of the Virginia Tech garba team as well as the Indian classical fusion team. After moving to New York City to pursue her career in the fashion industry, Maya was also interested in further improving herself as a dancer. She has been a member of the Navatman Dance Company since 2013, and continues to learn everyday. |
Yatrika Ajaya
Yatrika began her formal training in Bharatanatyam at the age of six from Smt. Mythili Kumar, Founder Director of the Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose. She first performed on stage in Abhinaya’s 1999 production “The Power of Saturn” as Nala and Damayanti’s daughter. In addition to being selected for roles in company productions from a young age, Yatrika grew up performing in annual school shows and at various venues around the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2007, Yatrika completed her Bharatanatyam Arangetram and continued to perform and grow as a young company dancer with Abhinaya Dance Company. Yatrika has participated in collaborations with Gamelan dancers and the San Jose Taiko drummers, has performed in the prestigious San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival for many years, and has toured with the company to Los Angeles, New York, and St. Louis. Yatrika began teaching Bharatanatyam to the next generation of dancers in Abhinaya’s school in 2007, and has mentored students preparing for their own Arangetrams. In 2011, she performed as a senior dancer in Abhinaya’s Next Generation Soloist Series. In addition to dance, Yatrika trained in Carnatic vocal music for twelve years under the tutelage of Smt. Jayashree Varadarajan, and completed a solo concert in 2008. In 2014 when Yatrika relocated to New York for her graduate studies, she joined Navatman wishing to stay connected with Bharatanatyam and to continue her growth as a dancer.
Yatrika began her formal training in Bharatanatyam at the age of six from Smt. Mythili Kumar, Founder Director of the Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose. She first performed on stage in Abhinaya’s 1999 production “The Power of Saturn” as Nala and Damayanti’s daughter. In addition to being selected for roles in company productions from a young age, Yatrika grew up performing in annual school shows and at various venues around the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2007, Yatrika completed her Bharatanatyam Arangetram and continued to perform and grow as a young company dancer with Abhinaya Dance Company. Yatrika has participated in collaborations with Gamelan dancers and the San Jose Taiko drummers, has performed in the prestigious San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival for many years, and has toured with the company to Los Angeles, New York, and St. Louis. Yatrika began teaching Bharatanatyam to the next generation of dancers in Abhinaya’s school in 2007, and has mentored students preparing for their own Arangetrams. In 2011, she performed as a senior dancer in Abhinaya’s Next Generation Soloist Series. In addition to dance, Yatrika trained in Carnatic vocal music for twelve years under the tutelage of Smt. Jayashree Varadarajan, and completed a solo concert in 2008. In 2014 when Yatrika relocated to New York for her graduate studies, she joined Navatman wishing to stay connected with Bharatanatyam and to continue her growth as a dancer.
Aparna Shankar - Dancer
Deepti Nagendra - Dancer
Kingsley Cruickshank
Dancer in Training
Karishma Shetty
Dancer in Training
PAMP/PAEP Scholar in Event Management
Guests: Sri Thina Subramaniam
Dancer in Training
Karishma Shetty
Dancer in Training
PAMP/PAEP Scholar in Event Management
Guests: Sri Thina Subramaniam
Older members:
Many dancers have come to help bring the troupe to what it is today. We applaud those dancers who have created time in their busy schedules to manage this company!
Anuradha Sethuraman, Aastha Joshi, Aanchal Raj, Sabina Sebastian, Usha Joyrama, Vidya Santosh, Priyanka Uchil, Taniya Panda, Natasha Raheja, Tanvi Bajaj, Aishwarya Iyer, Soumya Subramaniam, Kamya Somasundaram, Visali Ramanathan, Rohini Rau Murthy, Rohini Nair, Vani Nambudiri, Gayatri Mohan, Neha Deshmukh, Sahana Kamalakannan, Shalini Rajan, Jyotsna Kalyansundar, Bharathi Penneswaran, Samantha Lim
Many dancers have come to help bring the troupe to what it is today. We applaud those dancers who have created time in their busy schedules to manage this company!
Anuradha Sethuraman, Aastha Joshi, Aanchal Raj, Sabina Sebastian, Usha Joyrama, Vidya Santosh, Priyanka Uchil, Taniya Panda, Natasha Raheja, Tanvi Bajaj, Aishwarya Iyer, Soumya Subramaniam, Kamya Somasundaram, Visali Ramanathan, Rohini Rau Murthy, Rohini Nair, Vani Nambudiri, Gayatri Mohan, Neha Deshmukh, Sahana Kamalakannan, Shalini Rajan, Jyotsna Kalyansundar, Bharathi Penneswaran, Samantha Lim