The Team
Who We Are
Sangeetha Subramanian
Artistic Director & Bollywood Dance Teacher
Sangeetha has been dancing since the age of 6 and has had a career and passion in dancing for over 10 years. She began to teach dance in 2015 when she first moved to Cambridge, UK. She has performed in various national and International dance events including India, Japan cultural Association in Matsuyama, Japan and the UK. She has also organized and performed in various dance workshops in primary schools, community and public events all around Cambridge. Sangeetha is also a trained Bharatanatyam dancer for over 10 years and gives one-on-one lessons for children and adults.
She has performed in the well known Natyanjali festival for 3 consecutive years, including various other temples around Tamil Nadu, India. Sangeetha is very experienced and has performed in over 100 dance stages throughout her learning period. Her passion towards dancing is not only towards Bharatanatyam but various other dance forms like Tollywood, Contemporary and Bollywood.
She teaches Bollywood style dance for children and adults. She has taken her students to many National and International level dance shows. Sangeetha trains her students to not only be able to perform but also to take up challenges by entering dance competitions. Some of her students performed in prestigious events like Teen Starts Talent Competition, UK, National Entertainments Awards Ceremony UK , International Indian Icon, Chicago, USA and Diwali event in London at Trafalgar Square. She is currently preparing her kids advanced students to take part in U Dance Festival, UK.
Sangeetha believes that learning has absolutely no end and she consistently enhances her skills participating in various Bollywood dance workshops across London.
Her motto is “Love what you do and do what you love”
Bhargavi Anand
Bharatanatyam Dance Teacher
Bhargavi is a trained Bharatanatyam dancer, completed her masters (Vidwat) in Karnataka State Secondary Board Exams . She has 15 years of experience in teaching Bharatnatyam in various places such as Bangalore, Singapore and Indonesia .
Bhargavi is a passionate and a dedicated professional with a strong cultural bend, who believes in making a difference to people’s life through Art.
Performed not only at various prestigious National and international dance events, but has also choreographed & directed traditional folk dances, Semi-classical and Bharatanatyam group performances at Mysore, Mumbai, Bangalore , Singapore , Indonesia and now in united kingdom .
hargavi is a trained Bharatanatyam dancer, completed her masters (Vidwat) in Karnataka State Secondary Board Exams . She has 15 years of experience in teaching Bharatnatyam in various places such as Bangalore, Singapore and Indonesia .
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Tamara Tirijak
Founder & Odissi Dance Teacher
Tamara Tirják is an Odissi dancer born in Hungary. At a young age, she had 10 years of training in rhytmic gymnastics and ballet. This was followed by oriental dance as early as 2000, in classic and modern bellydance styles, which she was also teaching between 2003 an 2005. In 2005, she fell in love with Indian dance forms, and started taking classes in Budapest in Bharatanatyam, Odissi and Bollywood. In 2010, she decided to dedicate herself to Odissi, and joined the Parvati dance group in Budapest – led by Virág Réka Túri, a disciple of the late Guru Bijay Kumar Senapathi in Puri –, and had several major performances all around Hungary both as part of the group and as a soloist, and started training the beginner group, as well.
In 2012, she found her guru in Bhubaneswar: Padmashree Ileana Citaristi, a highly renowned dancer, teacher and choreographer, one of the most prominent disciples of the late Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra. Tamara has already travelled to India several times to polish her knowledge of the dance, even to perform on an art festival in the city of Jagannath Puri. She took a number of workshops with Sandhyadipa Kar and Saswat Joshi in Budapest, Hungary.
In 2013-2014 she joined the Gungur odissi group in Barcelona, led by Patricia Salgado, and was performing both with the group and as a solo artist.
Moving to Cambridge, UK she joined Sanskruti School of Dance in 2016 as an Odissi instructor, teaching both adults and children, and preparing them for performing at various community events and festivals. She continued honing her skills and expanding her repertoire by attending workshops led by Sujata Mohapatra and Madhavi Mudgal.
Tamara is a founding member of Swara Nritya School of Dance, teaching Odissi and Yoga classes.
Santoshi Iyer
Artistic Director & Carnatic Music Teacher
Santhoshi was born in Coimbatore and started to learn Music at the age of 4. She was trained by many Gurus like Mrs Manjula Rao, Shakthivel and M.S.Sheela. She also tried her hands on Violin for a couple of years from an esteemed Guru, Guruvayorappan from Coimbatore. Till date, she has done a lot of classical concerts and given many stage performances. She has also recorded her voice for a most renowned Ashtamsa varatha Maruti Temple at Coimbatore which became an instant hit around. Her most favourite work till date is for her spiritual Guru (Balarishi Sri Vishwashirasini) from Coimbatore when she released a very devotional album called ‘Aanantha Bala’ composed by Anuradha Sriram lyrics by Marabin mainthan Muthiah. She is a staunch Carnatic musician and training a lot of students inculcating both music and divine as she believes music is a greater way to attain inner peace.