My warm greetings for the New Year 2025. I am thrilled to announce the
Festival of 45 Years Indian Dance and Music in Switzerland
March 15/16 & 22/23 2025 | Nateschwara Theater, Baden
45 years long I was able to practice, teach, and perform dance and music with several generations of students and musicians. With all my love, passion, sincerity, and reverence I looked up to those great musicians and to my teachers who gave me opportunities to show the way to hundreds of students. Out of these, over 45 students made it up to their graduation, trained under my guidance until their Arangetram/Ranga Pravesha, their first performance on stage. Even today their words sound fresh in my ears: „My first performance was like a re-birth.“, giving the feeling a ‘Bharata Natyam Star’ was born. Some of them even achieved to be accomplished dancers and teachers.
Here I am honored to mention Smt. Rosmarie Weber and my daughter Smt. Sharmila Rao for their very special contributions. They served as teachers for several decades and performed extensively like none other until now in this field here in Switzerland.
I am grateful to Nateschwara Academy and its Theatre-Stage, which made it possible to host dance and music concerts, which made its way in a country, where I was surrounded by laymen when it all began in 1977. At that time Indian dance was mistaken as oriental dance (belly dance) and the only music known was the great sounds of Pandit Shri Ravishankar.
Now, the moment has come for the final spurt of my 55 years dance career, and I am pleased and honoured to invite you all to celebrate these memories and the success together with me and our school with your dance or music performance. The first dates are March 15/16 & 22/23 2025, after which we will schedule additional dates in April, May, and June and also in autumn.
Please register using the registration form .
Hope to see you soon!
Yours
Vijaya Rao
P.S. Please register for your performance on the Nateschwara registration form and mention in *Details* the dates or time period (see above) on which you would like to take part.
