Rasavikalpam - Dance Festival at Six Venues at Kerala.

Rasavikalpam, the dance festival organized by Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy in association with South Zone Cultural Centre will have a commencement on 1^st November 2014. The festival provides a platform for the artists across India, trained in classical dance forms, to showcase their talents. The event is held at six different venues in Kerala – Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Thrissur, Palakkad, Kozhikode and Walayar.  Workshops on classical dances will be also conducted in selected venues.

At Thiruvananthapuram, the festival will be conducted ten days from 01^st to 10^th November 2014, 06.30 pm at Cooperative Bank Auditorium. Rama Vaidyanathan, Dakshina Vaidyanathan, Jyotsa Jagannathan, Lavanya Ananth, Swetha Prachande, Navya Natarajan, Keerthi Ramgopal, Sreelatha Vinod, Sreekanth & Aswathy and Bragha Bessel will participate in the event. Sreelatha Vinod, bharathanatyam artist from Chennai will conduct a workshop here from 01^st to 07^th.

CSI Auditorium at Chinnakkada will be venue for the festival to be conducted at Kollam. The program will begin here on 02^nd November with the bharatanatyam performance of Kirthi Ramgopal. Rama Vaidyanathan, Dakshina Vaidyanathan, Sruthi Jayan and Jyotsa Jagannathan will perform in consecutive days. The event concluding on 06^th November will start on each day at 07.00 pm.

The festival will take place at Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy at Thrissur from 01 to 10 November, 06.30 pm. There will be a seven day workshop at this venue from 01 to 07 Nov by talented bharatanatyam dancer Bragha Bessel. Ten talented artists Kirthi Ramgopal, Jyotsa Jagannathan, Arupa Lahiry, Rama Vaidyanathan, Dakshina Vaidyanathan, Swetha Prachande, Bragha Bessel, Sreelatha Vinod and Mandakini Trivedi will participate.

On Saturday, 01^st November Sreekanth & Aswathy will perform at Rappadi open air auditorium in Palakkad. Aparna Vinod, Navya Natarajan, Mandakini Trivedi, Arupa Lahiry, Sruthi Jayan, Shabana & Shafeekudeen, Swetha Prachande, Rama Vaidyanathan and Dakshina Vaidyanathan will perform at Palakkad till 10^th of November. Dance workshop led by Mandakini Trivedi will be conducted here from 01^st  to 07^th  .

Jyotsa Jagannathan Lavanya Ananth, Arupa Lahiry, Navya Natarajan, Kirthi Ramgopal, Swetha Prachande, Rama Vaidyanatha, Dakshina Vaidyanathan, Bragha Bessel and Sreelatha Vinod are the artists performing at Chavara Cultural Centre in Kozhikode. Workshop by Manju Bhargavi will be held from 01 to 10 Nov.

The festival begins on 06^th of November at  Ahalya Heritage Village,Walayar . Arupa Lahiry, Rasika Kumar, Shabana & Shafeekudeen, Dakshina Vaidyanathan and Rama Vaidyanathan will participate here.

Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy, an autonomous body for arts, used to conduct festivals and programs in Kerala to nurture and promote the art and artist all over India. The academy has organized and is conducting programs in 365 days of the year.