The San Francisco International Arts Festival presents: Anupama Srivastava and the InSyncKathak Dancers: Prakriti
https://www.sfiaf.org/2025_insynckathak
Sunday, May 11th, 2:00pm
Anupama Srivastava and the InSyncKathak Dancers: Prakriti
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
Production Details
Prakriti
Prakriti is an ode to Mother Nature. It is a story about the precarious relationship between a nurturing yet authoritative mother and her intelligent yet most errant children! We humans, irrespective of our geography and politics, must embrace responsible sustainable actions to preserve our planet for future generations, else face the life-altering wrath of nature’s fury. Creation, coexistence, change, and resilience are threads woven into the beautiful tapestry of life. Drawing upon myriad personal experiences like wildfires, earthquakes, and droughts in California, this relentless human spirit and its tryst with Mother Nature is presented through Indian classical Kathak dance.
InSyncKathak
In the twelve years since its inception under the stewardship of Anupama Srivastava, InSyncKathak has won critical acclaim, 50+ awards and 250+ performances to its credit, including , All Indian Dance Festival at Carnegie Hall New York, Drive East Festival New York, New York Kathak Festival, Sacramento Dance Sampler, National YoungArts Week Miami, San Francisco Movement Arts Festival, Oakland Dance Festival, and Toronto International Youth Dance Festival.
Artist Biographies
Anupama Srivastava
A performer, teacher, and choreographer of the North Indian Classical Kathak dance and disciple of Padmashri Guru Shovana Narayan. Anupama’s dance is marked by rhythmic virtuosity, graceful movements, exquisite expressions, and nuanced artistry. Her choreography has won wide acclaim and accolades across North America and India. Anupama is a Master Artist and grant-recipient recognized by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She received the Kala Bharati Award for her contributions to the dance world. Three of her students are National YoungArts Foundation awardees, including Reva Srivastava, 2022 US Presidential Scholar in the Arts.
Reva Srivastava
Reva Srivastava is a brilliant budding Kathak artist and choreographer, a National YoungArts Finalist and 2022 US Presidential Scholar in the Arts. Her dance is marked by sensitive expressions, rhythmic prowess, strong technique, and inherent grace, truly embodying the essence of the Lucknow Gharana style of Kathak. Reva is a junior at UCLA, majoring in Public Health.
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