User:Nehha23

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Nehha Bhatnagar is a Bharatanatyam danseuse, enterpreneur and social worker based in New Delhi, India. She is a senior disciple of the eminent Guru Padmashri Dr. Saroja Vaidyathan and runs an NGO by the name of SARVAM- Saroja Vaidyanathan Arts Mission. The NGO teaches underpriviledged children and mentally challenged children nuances of Classical dance for therapeutic and knowledge enhancing purposes. She is also in the process of setting up a company for the promotion of culture, especially the Classical arts that are the heritage of India. Nehha has performed widely as a solo and a group artiste, both in India and abroad.

Early life and education: Nehha attended The Shri Ram School in Vasant Vihar and Phase 3 Gurgaon till her Xth grade.She completed her high school education from Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj in the Humanities field where she not only topped the school with a 94.8 percent, but also topped India in two subjects. She enrolled at the Lady Shri Ram College for Sociology and then transferred under scholarship to Knox College, Illinois, USA to complete a degree in International Studies. She holds a M.A in Political Science from Delhi University. She has also worked at the office of Dr.Shashi Tharoor, former Minister of State for External Affairs and Member of Parliament from June 2009-March 2012. She is a noted TEDx speaker. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0XCj73i57o)

Passion

Nehha has been pursuing her passion in Bharatanatyam. She is a Doordarshan graded artiste, a Sahitya Kala Parishad scholarship holder(2012-2014) and an empanelled artiste with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. Some of her performances have been:

-Member of senior troupe sent to Latvia and Sweden on behalf of Indian Embassy in Stockholm. Compered and performed at the prestigious recitals

- Horizons series at ICCR

- Kalidas Samman Award ceremony group recital, Bhopal

● Member of delegation to China on behalf of Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports- performed extensively amongst which Great Hall of the People, Beijing for Wen Jiabao, the Chinese Premier, was also included. ●  India-China 60 years of diplomatic relations program at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium ● All India Journalist Association program at Ashok Hotel, New Delhi ● Group recital of Subramanya Bhartiyar’s poems for San Francisco Bay Area Tamil Manram, USA ● Group performance at IIT Delhi ● International Mettalurgical Conference, Pragati Maidan, Delhi ● Mahishasura Mardini troupe recital, Bangalore ● Soorya Festival, Thiruvananthapuram ● Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony, Tree of Knowledge segment ● Mahishasura Mardini at Chinmaya Mission, New Delhi ● Evening at Kuwait Embassy, New Delhi ● ‘Abhas: Divinity in Dance”, a solo at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi( Chief Guest- Dr. Shashi Tharoor) ● Lecture Demonstration with Guruji at Centre For Cultural Research and Training, Dwarka ● Recital/tribute for Pandit Ravi Shankar’s 90th Birthday Celebration at Indian Islamic Cultural Centre, Lodhi Road, Delhi ● Recital for All India Inner Wheel Club at PHD House, Khel GaonMarg, Delhi ● ‘Dance and Diplomacy’: solo lecture demonstrations and recital at Princeton University, Brown University, GrinnellCollege and Knox College- USA ● Solo at ‘Samagam’ for School of Arts and Aesthetics, JawaharlalNehru University, Delhi ● Lecture demonstration and recital for Embassy of Dominican Republic, their delegation and various Latin American ambassadors at Ganesa Natyalaya, New Delhi ● Dance Diplomacy: An evening of Bharatanatyam hosted by the Ministry Of External Affairs for various ambassadors to India. ● Engineers India Limited Conference, Delhi ● ‘Building a culture of peace’ lecture demonstration through dance at the 8th Asia Society 2nd Festival Forum, University of Mumbai ● Road Safety Week at Pragati Maidan (special skit by group on traffic rules) ● Inner Wheel Circle of Rotary, Delhi ●Group Presentation for the Ambassador of India to Kazakhstan ● Aarohan 2010: Recital at NIT, Durgapur, W. Bengal ● Prime Minister’s delegation for Commonwealth Games, TajPalace, Delhi ● Group presentation at Kamakhya Festival, Guwahati ● Pradosham, a Ganesa Natyalaya ballet on the Natya Shastra at Chinmaya Mission ● Uday Shankar Festival, Jaipur Programs: (2009)- Group and solo: 5th Dhauli Mahotsav at Orissa ● Lecture Demonstration at the 50th Golden Jubilee celebrations of MNNIT, Allahabad, U.P ● “Patriotism and Women’s Liberation”: Subramanya Bhartia’s poems at Delhi Tamil Sangam ● Solo evening at Triveni Kala Sangam, Delhi ● Sangeet Natak Akademi: Group Tour to Kazakhstan • Shivashtakam, a solo evening at Triveni Kala Sangam • Krishnarpanam, a solo evening at Isckon Auditorium, Delhi • Commonwealth Baton Relay ceremony UNESCO World Heritage Day, Pune • Taj Mahotsav, Agra • Performance for Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State of Bill Clinton, USA • ‘Youth Express’ on Doordarshan National • A group member of recordings for Sangeet Natak Akademi and IGNOU • Indian Federation of United Nations Associations: Asia-Pacific conferences • ‘ Shubha Mudgal evening’ in collaboration with Celiac Society of India at Habitat Centre, Delhi • IGNOU recording with Guruji for ‘Classical Dance’ syllabus • Embassy performances: China and U.S.A • Spic Macay series with Guruji at Kurukshetra • Lecture demonstrations at various colleges across the United States

She lives in New Delhi with her mother, father, brother and two daschunds.