Every year Sam Ved Society for Performing Arts & Uma Dogra present the Raindrops Festival.
Year 2024 will be their 34 th year and as usual artists from all over the country participate in the
two-day celebrations.
This year will showcase Bharatanatyam dancer Shreema Upadhyaya, from Bengaluru, India. Her
natural flair for the artform has been nurtured by her Guru Sri Praveen Kumar for close to two
decades now. Currently training as a solo performing artist under her Guru, she is known for her
exceptional Nritta technique and eloquent Abhinaya.
Upadyay is a graded artist of the Bangalore Doordarshan and holds the Scholarship for Young
Artists by the Government of India. Shreema has performed extensively as a soloist in India, and
that includes Music Academy, Madras, Narada Gana Sabha and many more. She has had the
privilege of working with Padmasri Malavika Sarukkai as part of her ensemble work ‘Thari-The
Loom’ (2017) which toured across the world, and also accompanied Gurus Kiran Subramaniam
and Sandhya Kiran in their presentation of ‘Maanini’ (2019).
To be continued