Aparna's Dance Academy's mission is to "educate students in the discipline of dance through formal program". Our programs include training in fundamental of dance through Indian classical dance Kathak. Programs also include contemporary dances where students apply their knowledge of dance acquired through Kathak.
Aparna's Dance Academy started in Atlanta in the year 2001 in Smyrna GA. Currently it operates two studios, at Alpharetta and Smyrna GA.
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Director Aparna Sharma
Aparna Sharma is the founder and
director of this institute. Before finding Aparna’s Dance Academy
in 2001, Aparna was professor of Dance at prestigious colleges and
universities in India. She has been teaching and performing dance in
India and many countries for over 15 years.
Aparna started learning Kathak at the
age of seven from guru Shrimati Shashi Mohan Goyal. Later she learnt
Kathak from Guru Shri Rajender Gangani in Delhi Kathak Kendra. Aparna
found Kathak and Rajasthani folk dances school ‘Pushpanjali Nritya
Niketan’ at Jaipur in 1987. She achieved several milestones at an
early age including Rajasthan University’s Smt. Maya Israni Gold
Medal Award in year 1989-90; Rajasthan’s Best Dancer Award from
1987 to 1989; and first Position in Inter College Youth festival in
year 1988.
After completing her master’s degree
in Kathak from Bhathkhande University, Aparna joined Banasthali
Vidhyapeeth as the dance professor in 1993. She also completed her
Master’s degree in Food and Nutrition in the same year from
Rajasthan University. Her students won interstate and then national
dance competition, held at Amaravati, Maharashtra, in 1994 for the
first time in the college’s history.
Aparna took an opportunity to visit
Japan in 1994 on the invitation on Government of Japan for an
international cultural festival. Her performance at 40 different
locations including Nagoya, Wakayama, Osaka, Nishinomiya, Toyama,
Tokai city etc
In 1995, Modi Institute of Science and
Technology offered Aparna a position with dual responsibilities of
head of the department of Dance and head of the department of Food
and Nutrition. Since Aparna love unique challenged, she took this
offer to start the department.
In order to pursue her PhD in Foods and
Nutrition, Aparna took the position of professor at the University in
1997. She continued to give dance instructions at the University and
her own dance school- Pushpanjali Nritya Niketan.
In the year 1999, Aparna moved to
Atlanta USA, and found Aparna’s Kathak Academy in the year 2001.
She has been very much involved with the India community in their
cultural activities, where her students have performed Kathak and
folk dances. She has carried out dance workshops for students in
University of Georgia and numerous schools in Atlanta. She has also
collaborated with a Flamingo instructor from New York to display the
similarities in the two dance forms to dance students at University
of Georgia.
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