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About Siri Rama

Siri Rama lived in Hong Kong from 1992-1999 during which she performed for all three leading Indian cultural organizations in the city, Gananjali, Indian Arts Circle and Vrindaban Academy, and also completed a PhD in Fine Arts at the University of Hong Kong. She also conducted numerous lecture demonstrations and workshops on Indian dance for a variety of organizations including the Center for the Arts at HKUST, the department of Music at HKU, the Friends of the Chinese University Museum, the HK Academy for the Performing Arts, the Urban and Regional Councils, and the Hong Kong Youth Arts Festival.

Siri was also featured several times in the local HK media - on radio, television and in the local press. She was also invited to choreograph and conduct dance events for the International Travel Convention, the Hong Kong Kannada Sangha and for the Cantonese-language television station TVB-Jade. She was invited to conceptualize and choreograph a special dance production on the life of the Buddha entitled Buddha Charita to mark the inauguration of a major exhibition of Buddhist Art at the Fung Ping Shan Museum at the University of Hong Kong in 1998; in conjunction with this event, Siri's dance troupe of twelve artistes from the Kanaka Sabha Centre in Mumbai was invited to perform classical and Indian dance in several locations all around Hong Kong.

A few other noteworthy performances:

October 1999 Gananjali-Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Presented a unique recital named the "Ancient Temple Music of India".
A unique feature of the recital was the tillana, which was choreographed to music accompaniment by a Nadaswaram ensemble, led by Sri Lankan Vidwan NK Pathmanathan; the tillana concluded with an extempore interaction between the musicians and the dancer.

August 1996 International Computer Music Conference
Siri performed a solo recital at the City Hall Theatre, Hong Kong for the International Computer Music Conference. The entire recital was choreographed to computer music submissions to the conferences from composers around the world.

March 1996 Indian Arts Circle
Siri staged a dance drama, Krishna Leela, with a cast of over forty members.

January, 1995 Indian Arts Circle
Siri staged a Hindi dance drama version of the Indian epic, the Ramayana, at the City Hall in association with the Indian Arts Circle with an all Hong Kong cast of over 50 members and a live orchestra from India. In the long history of the Indian community in Hong Kong, this was the first time that such a major performing arts event was staged with a completely local assembly of performers. Following the dance drama and her own solo Kuchipudi recital, Siri formally launched her Hong Kong dance school, Nrityanjali, as a dance wing of Gananjali.

1994 and 1995 Hong Kong Youth Arts Festivals
Siri's dance school participated in the Hong Kong Youth Arts Festivals.

Some of Siri's students in Hong Kong

Nirupama Anand
Deepa Natarajan
Shanu Sadhwani

  

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