​Student Sundays

2021 Dates 

Timings for Student Sundays is specific to the month and event. 

​January 31 
March 21 
May 16 
July 18 
September 26
October 17
November 21
December 5

Student Sundays

"Student Sundays" is a black box style performance arena that provides opportunities for students to perform -  on stage and now online!

​As we all know, New York City is known as a hub of learning and the arts, however, students don't always have enough opportunities to perform and gain the confidence to perform in front of a varied audience. Now in the digital age, the ability to stage a performance online has also become more important than ever before for artists. 

For this reason, Navatman brings "Student Sundays Online” so that students from all over can develop into performing artists and really help take Indian performing arts to more mainstream audiences.

This event is free to watch via zoom or in person at our studios, so invite family and friends!

buy free tickets to watch

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Register to Perform:

Please follow the steps below to confirm your participation:

1. Click the button below to sign up to register for a slot and pay your participation fee. Slots will be filled on a first come first serve basis. Final day for registration is Thursday before the show. Shows do get filled in advance, so please pay your participation fee as soon as you know you plan on performing.

2. Once registered, you will receive a ticket receipt that has a link to submit a form to confirm your performance and provide additional details. This form must be filled out by the Thursday before the show.

*If you are a group, please ensure registration and payment for every member and share your confirmation receipt with the list of participants. If you are performing more than one piece, please purchase ticket quantities accordingly.

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Performing in Student Sunday Instructions 

What you will need:
A laptop and mobile device camera that you are NOT holding in place that captures your head (music) or full body (dance).

We usually recommend using a mobile device for Zoom video (as it has a better wide angle camera) and using the laptop or another device to play the audio.

Zoom instructions: 

Download Zoom Ahead of Time on Phone

1. On that device please go to https://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting and download Zoom Client for Meetings
   1. No account is needed to log into a meeting.
2. Click the zoom link you received in your registration receipt.  Zoom will open automatically. If you get a prompt, please accept when zoom asks to open or “run”. Make sure to connect to computer audio by clicking on the green prompt button the centre of your screen so you can be heard. 

Space and managing distractions:

• Put yourself somewhere where there are no other distractions. 
• For younger kids: Parents, please try to monitor the video during the performance. If possible, let them perform without other people nearby. Double check that everyone knows there is a concert happening in the house/room.

Video Framing:

• Dance Students: Ensure your ENTIRE body is in the frame. The camera must cover the entire space the student will use for the dance. All movements must be within the frame.
• Music Students: Make sure your entire body is being captured in the frame.

Tech Rehearsals (Important steps before show):

1. Zoom settings:
   1. Enable HD video on Zoom under Preferences > Video settings (Setting only available on laptop)
   2. Use a phone for the video (ipads and tablets do not seem to work well)
      1. Make sure you mute the phone/video, if using two devices
      2. Also, mute your sound under zoom settings for audio coming out of zoom - otherwise it will feedback between your audio and video device
   3. Use your laptop for audio - more settings are available
      1. Dance and music: turn on “original sound” in audio settings
      2. Dance and music: disable “cancel out intermittent background noise” and disable “persistent background noise”. If you do not do this, the tanpura or your footwork will compete with the music
      3. Music: try to use the proper mic for your voice or instrument to feed into your laptop
      4. For audio being played, again, the best option is a line in speaker to the computer, if not, put the speaker playing directly in front of the laptop. This is significantly poorer audio quality, though.
   4. Make sure enough lighting (artist should have lighting from the front i.e. to the face rather than at the back)

​Thank you sooo much for the opportunity today! I feel so much more confident and I did my best to implement the corrections you suggested. I will continue to work on them. I am looking forward to improving more and performing again :)"

-Current Student