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Two weeks later, and we’re still celebrating the talented participants and winners of the Natya Quiz at Natya Utsav’26.

A huge thank you to Sangeetha Ramanathan and Preetha Babu for conducting such an engaging and enriching quiz session.
Special thanks as well to our wonderful volunteers Vijetha Sivanand, Aabha Pingle, and Shruthi Kulkarni for helping ensure the event ran smoothly.

🏆 1st Place
Prakruthi Venkataraghavan and Advitha Akula from Nrityala School of Dance

🥈 2nd Place
Smriti Suresh, Kaaviya Velmurugan and Rush*tha Gorantla from Arpana Natya Shala

Thank you to and for your support in making events like these possible.

Grateful to everyone who made Natya Utsav so special- , artists from the Seattle area, volunteers, sponsors and community members who came together to dance, learn, and connect through the arts this past weekend.

Special thank you to and Michael Welch for bringing in visual and literary art to the festival this year! Thank you to for beautifully presenting and emceeing the event and helping bring the entire experience together. Sangeetha Prasad and babu for conducting an engaging quiz and inspiring young talent.

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Gratitude to and for the support without which a festival of this scale would not be possible!

We are really grateful to .seattle for sponsoring Chai and samosas - available in the lobby at 5:30 pm before the evening performance by Meera Sreenarayanan.

Grateful to and for the support!

We are really exited to have NKTunes School of Music, founded by Nalini Krishnan open our festival with a short live music segment with young local talent.

We will have Nivedha Naren, Amudha Naren and Vedanth Bhat on vocal from NKTunes School of Music collaborating with Diya Ramkumar on violin and Advik Krishnan on mridangam.

Please join us and come support these young artists.

Final schedule for the day! Hope see you all!

Vayu presented by Aishwarya Ramakrishnan Nidhi Sheshadri and Deepthi Vasudevan collaborating with Apoorva Pradeep on Nattuvangam Ramya Kannan on Vocal Anirud Parthasarathy on Mridangam and Sanjay Natesan on Flute.

Join us at Natya Utsav starting at 1:30 pm and this segment Exploring elements through storytelling at 3:15 pm.

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Exploring the elements through storytelling: Akshaya Arunkumar and Krishna Tejaswi will present a production on Space in collaboration with Vilasini Subramanian on nattuvangam Veena Girish on vocal Anish Mandyam on Mridangan and Rama Muthukumarvon Veena.

Please join us at 3:15 pm on Saturday, May 9th.

We are extremely delighted to have Latha Pat be part of Natya Utsav 2026 and present the segment Confluence of the Dances of India with the unique vision of bringing together dance, music, visual art, and literary expression.
We deeply appreciate her efforts in helping us create a space where artists and art lovers can celebrate art as one shared experience and bringing together Sweety Sarada Arts, Captain Haiku Michael Dylan Welch, and Eastside Live Sketchers alongside an incredible ensemble of dancers and musicians.

Ticket link : https://tinyurl.com/natyautsav-2026-Meera

An engaging quiz exploring Indian classical dance that makes learning both interactive and enjoyable for young students!

Led by Sangeetha Ramanathan and Preetha Babu, both of whom are teachers familiar to the community.

Huge shoutout to Vijetha Sivanand with the help with coordinating to make this happen!

A few spots still open. DM us if you or your school has a group of 3 interested in participating!

Here is the full schedule for Natya Utsav 2026- join us for an immersive evening of dance music storytelling and art!