Accolades

ACCOLADES

Divyanjali Dance School has conducted 62 Arangetrams so far with the 50th Arangetram done in the year 2015 and the 60th in the year 2019. Dr.Smt.S.Divyasena has also conducted an Arangetram abroad.

Divyanjali’s biggest assets are its students who have won numerous laurels to the school.

They have become recipients of prestigious scholarships like

➢ CCRT scholarship (Junior and Senior Categories) – instituted by the Govt. of India
➢ Bharat Kalachar Scholarship
➢ Iyal Isai Nataka Mandram Scholarship.

Students of Divyanjali have proved their mettle in various competitions conducted across India and abroad and also several online competitions during the Covid Pandemic.

➢ Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival, Ohio, USA
➢ All India Dance Festival conducted by Kalamandir College of Fine Arts, Kannur
➢ All India Dance Festival conducted by Nrithyathi Kalakshetram, Raipur
➢ Dance jathre 2013, Bangalore
➢ Indian Fine Arts, Chennai
➢ Swathi Thirunal Competition of Malayalee Club, Chennai
➢ Spirit of Youth competition, Music Academy, Chennai
➢ ISKCON
➢ All India Dance Competition organized by The Navya Nataka Samiti, Hyderabad
➢ All India Dance Competition conducted by Akhil Bharatiya Sanskrutik Sangh at Pune, Maharashtra
➢ Natyarangam Competition conducted by Narada Gana Sabha and Sruthi Magazine, Chennai
➢ Sumukhi Rajasekaran Memorial Foundation’s ‘Chithirai Kalai Vizha’
➢ Jaya Tv’s ‘Taka Dimi Tha’
➢ ‘Konjum Salangai’,a Competition in Podhigai TV
➢ Concern India Foundation’s ‘Talent Search’
➢ Nalanda Nrityotsav, Mumbai
➢ Sursingar Mumbai, Mumbai
➢ Kala Vaibhava Competition
➢ Abhinandan Saroja Bharathanatyam Competition
➢ NatyaSunada Ankura
➢ Tharikitathom Challenge, Prothsaahan

Many have also won several awards and titles such as :

➢ Dr. Padma Subramanian Endowment Award
➢ Best Dancer Award, VDS Arts Academy
➢ Best Dancer Award, Indian Fine Arts (2007,2010)
➢ Bharat Kalachar Scholarship
➢ Iyal Isai Nataka Mandram Scholarship
➢ Nalanda Nritya Nipuna
➢ Natya Gunashree, Natya Kalamani and Nritta Gunashree, Nadam Nrithyotsav
➢ Kala Vaibhavi Award, Kala Vaibhava Competition
➢ Empanelled Artists in AIDA
➢ Natwar Gopikrishna Award for Bharathanatyam, AIDA
➢ Bharat Nrithya Vishmaya and Nrithya Koumudi, Sri Jayadev Rastriya Samaroh
➢ Hall of Fame, Live4You

We also have students who have completed their masters in Bharathanatyam and who are ranked as “B” grade artists by Doordarshan Kendra.

Many senior students of Divyanjali have become dance teachers of leading dance institutions and have begun their own dance schools across India and at abroad – USA, UK and Singapore.

Inspired by the Guru and the artform, many of the senior students of Divyanjali have taken up dance as their profession and are thus heading dance classes of their own, a few of them being

➢ Smt. Shyamala Narayan
➢ Smt. Krithika Mahesh
➢ Smt. Uttara Ramesh
➢ Sri. Senthilkumar
➢ Durga
➢ Smt. Vidyalakshmi
➢ Smt. Suganya
➢ Smt. Shakthi
➢ Sri. Sumodh
➢ Smt. Jayashree
➢ Smt. Roopa

A few other students have been serving/have served as dance instructors abroad, namely

➢ Ms. Shantha Kumari Pappil, staff at Natya Dance Theatre, USA.
➢ Ms. Akshaya Sreekumar, staff at Alapana Arts, Singapore
➢ Ms. Swarna Varsha Gurumoorthy, staff at Rhythms Aesthetic Society, Singapore
➢ Ms. Gajalakshmi, staff at Alapana Arts, Singapore