Happy New Year! We’re excited for 2012 and another fantastic Kruti journey! As we embark on this year’s beginning, we can’t help but reflect on all the incredible milestones Kruti achieved this past year.
At exactly this time last year, a team of 6 Kruti dancers and artistic director, Shemoni Parekh, traveled to Mumbai to participate on the hit dance show Chak Dhoom Dhoom! Kruti was the only international team selected to participate in the show and we reached the top 9 out of over 5000 acts. Read more about it here and watch all of our Chak Dhoom Dhoom performances here!
Our annual recital was another success this year as we took the stage for at the Cobb Energy and Performing Arts Center. This year’s recital theme was “From Hollywood to Bollywood” to commemorate Kruti’s national and international media acclaim. We relived our favorite moments from our America’s Got Talent and Chak Dhoom Dhoom campaigns for a sold out audience!
We continued the Recital’s momentum through the summer months as we had one of our busiest three month stretches I can remember! We started the summer with a great Bollywood summer camp that had about 50 participants! In addition, ten Kruti students performed their Arangetram students - Poulomi Purkayastha, Sapna Shah, Rupal Hira, Anjali Kumar, Avanti Patel, Preeya Banit, Janki Patel, Ayshali Gauba, Chandni Nayyar, Priya Malhotra. All in all, the summer was a great success and we are extremely proud of all our graduates!
The Fall semester kicked off and we were invited to perform a show celebrating the 50th anniversary of Virginia Tech’s Indian Association. Kruti took a team of 65 performers – boys and girls – and performed for an energetic and enthusiastic audience!
Shortly thereafter, we traveled to Beaumont, Tx to perform for a thousand folks at the annual IndiaFest Gala. We had a great time performing for the IndiaFest Gala in 2010 and they called us once again to perform at IndiaFest Gala 2011!
For our final performance of the year, we were invited to perform for the Cricket Association of Atlanta Gala in front of a crowd of over 500 Atlantans. We had an excellent time performing for a different audience in our home state!
To round off 2011, one of our very own – Shivani Gandhi – has gone on to compete in Dance India Dance! We are incredibly proud of Shivani and so happy that Kruti could bring her closer to following her dreams!
We are incredibly excited for 2012 and all the great things that are in store for Kruti. We hope to share our love for Indian dance with even more people this year. So what’s next for Kruti you ask? Be sure to stay in touch with us on our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter. This year is going to be a good one….we can feel it!