In week #8 of the Virtual Mahotsavam series, ICAPS will feature the talented Bharatanatyam dancer Ms. Ramya S Kapadia. Her performance will premiere live on ICAPS Richmond YouTube channel on Saturday, August 22 at 10 AM EST.
You can learn more about the artist by watching her interview posted below. Mark your calendar today to enjoy this concert.
Ramya S. Kapadia is a Durham-based Bharatanatyam dancer, choreographer, instructor and a Carnatic vocalist (South Indian classical dance & music forms). She received initial training in Bharatanatyam from Smt. Santha Gopinath of Kalakshetra and later from Smt. Kripa Baskaran, Brookfield, WI. Her vocal training began under her mother Smt. Gayathri Sundaresan, advanced by Late Guru V. Vamanan, Mumbai, India. Ramya has toured all over the United States & abroad to present solo & group works. She regularly provides vocal accompaniment to dancers around the world and composes music for their productions. Ramya has dabbled in a bit of Indie-pop and Indo-Jazz music during her undergraduate years in Mumbai. During that time, she also lent her voice to Indian commercials and movies - “Kaho na Pyar Hai” & the Tamil-Telugu bilingual movie “180”.
Ramya has Master’s degrees in Medical Physics and Neuroscience and pursues the arts full time now. She runs the Natyarpana School of Dance & Music in Durham, NC, through which she shares the rich traditions of Carnatic music and Bharatanatyam with the youth of the Triangle Area. She is also the Assistant Artistic Director of Maryland- based Prakriti Dance.
She received the Ella Pratt Emerging Artist Award from the Durham Arts Council in 2010 and the Choreography Fellowship from the North Carolina Dance Alliance in 2016. Currently she is on the Advisory Committee of the “Dance at the Van Dyke” series at Greensboro Dance Project.
Ramya believes that art can and should tell stories that move audiences to becoming better and more compassionate human beings. The collaborators in her works are artists, scientists, literary scholars and philosophers who all share her vision of creating a better world through art. She is grateful to her many mentors for providing her with rich and varied experiences in the arts.
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