Three Aksha Dance Company
The goals of Three Aksha include:
- To both preserve and promote traditional Indian performing arts and culture, and to increase awareness and appreciation for them, among Indians in the U.S. as well as all Americans, through dance, theater, and education.
- To use creative movement as a tool to encourage cultural understanding and awareness and reduce discrimination.
- To create opportunities for emerging artists from the five-county Pennsylvania area and to serve as a platform to help promote their work.
- To foster and engage with a network of local artists sharing an open exchange of information and resources in order to further the development of art and ideas.
Three Aksha was founded in Philadelphia in 2003 by Artistic Director Viji Rao, and is based at Girard College, where she has been an artist in residence since 2008. Three Aksha seeks to preserve and promote Indian culture and heritage through classical Indian Bharatanatyam dance choreography in the Philadelphia area and in other ethnically diverse regions of the world. Three Aksha has performed in major cities across the US, the UK, Europe and India.
In addition to its active performance and touring schedule, Three Aksha shares its expertise in Indian dance in workshops and lecture-demonstrations throughout the Delaware Valley. As a complement to the socially conscious themes that frequently play into the company’s performance work, Three Aksha engages with social issues by working with youth and with fundraising programs.
Note: The above descriptive information came from the ensemble's About Us: Three Aksha page.
In The News
- Dance company to perform at Carnegie Hall, Northeast Times, January 17, 2020.
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- Videos: Three Aksha (YouTube Playlist)