Founder & Artistic Director
Experience
- In addition to choreographing several works, she has produced, choreographed and staged four evening length dance Productions between 2017 to 2019 with audience averaging 200 for each performance
- Created several collaborative works and performances
- Performed at several events in and around Dallas such as Dallas Dances, Dance Planet, DTC’s Winter’s tale, Dallas senior games, Coppell Kaleidoscope, Frisco Discovery Center. Outside Dallas, performed in Houston Fringe Festival, Waco cultural arts festival, Mind the Gap - Houston, Barnstorm Houston
- Given presentations and lecture demonstrations at several schools, libraries and senior centers
- Conducted master classes on Indian dance forms and Yoga, ‘Story telling through Bharatanatyam’
- Conducted Yoga and strengthening sessions for Runners
- Yoga classes for beginners and Intermediate practitioners in various fitness levels and ages
- Provided guided meditation sessions – be more present
- Cultural awareness sessions in various schools – Indian arts and culture, “How can we use the arts to communicate the story of a culture?” (Good Shepherd Episcopal School, St. Johns Episcopal school)
- Collaboration with local artists to find areas of synergy in Dance
- Conducted training sessions on Body and Mind conditioning through Yoga and dance
Bhuvana Venkatraman
Bhuvana is an enthusiastic dancer/choreographer/certified Yoga Teacher, strongly rooted in tradition, specializing in the Indian classical Dance form, Bharatanatyam and Hatha Yoga. She is drawn towards these art forms, captivated by the vibrancy and the spiritual beauty they have to offer.
She considers Bharatanatyam a medium for finding metaphors in every event in our lives and finding its deeper roots in spiritual elevation. Backed with strong training in this art form and its background in Yoga, she wants to blend the great art with strengthening aspects of Yoga to provide a medium for Body and Mind conditioning. She wants to create a holistic approach to wellbeing, taking into account the big picture and incorporating elements for physical, mental, and emotional health.
She has offered several dance performance, classes and workshops on Bharatanatyam (dance) and Yoga. She has conducted workshops on ‘Storytelling through Bharatanatyam’ and ‘Abhyasa series’ on Yoga. She is always eager to find innovative new ways of sharing the classical Indian technique of Bharatanatyam with contemporary audiences
She is the Founder of Tejas Dance to enrich and popularize Bharatanatyam; and also to identify and encourage talent in the field. She is also the co-founder of Indique Dance Company. She serves on the board of the Dance Council of North Texas.
Choreographic full-length productions
- June 2017 – Tejas Dance - Shivalaya - A thematic presentation on Lord Shiva and His Abode for the ICHF and the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs
- May 2018 – Tejas Dance - Glimpses of Blue’
- August 2018 – Tejas Dance - ‘PratibhAsa – Anthology in Dance’ for Texas Commission on the Arts and ICHF
- September 2018 - Invited to perform ‘Ardhanareeshwara’ at the Dallas Dances 2018, Moody Performance Hall
- June 2019 – ‘the WOMAN next door’ premiered in Dallas, TX on June 16th
Other Choreographic works
- August 2008 – Indique Dance Company - Omkara Karini
- May 2013 – Indique Dance Company - JIVA Synergy in Nature
- Dec 2013 – Ayiram karangal Neeti – Expressions School of Dance
- Sep 2014 – Valliyin Kadhal – Expressions School of Dance
- August 2015 – Indique Dance Company – For Love - Yatra – Discovery through Journey
- August 2016 – Indique Dance Company – Srishti Sthiti Laya
- March 2019 – Collaboration with Joshua in creation of ‘Dialogue’
- September 2019 – ‘A daughters letter’ – Dallas Dances 2019
- March 2020 – ‘Waves of bliss’ in collaboration with Sandhya Raghuraman – Mind the Gap 15.0 – Dance Source Houston