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SPRING 1 KATHAK CLASSES (Full schedule below)
May 1 - June 26, 2010
8 week session


FULL SUMMER SESSION
July 6-August 21
NEW BEGINNER KATHAK CLASSES
Wednesdays July 7 -August 18
7-8 pm
7 week session

To pay for kathak classes on line
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FOR SPRING 1 CLASSES add "8" in the quantity box


for Kathak class info: joanna@mdo-tte.org

THURSDAY NEW BEGINNER SITAR
5-6 PM
May 6 - June 24
To pay for sitar classes on line
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Add "8" in the quantity box for SPRING 1 session, 8 weeks

 

SUNDAY SITAR CLASSES
May 2 - June 27, 2010
Beginner 4
10 am-11:30 am

$160/ 8 week session
To pay for sitar classes on line
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Add "8" in the quantity box for SPRING 1 session, 8 weeks

for Sitar class information please contact Priyank Thatte
mail@priyank.com

 


SITAR RENTALS AVAILABLE THROUGH OUR STUDIO
supplied from House of Raga
instrument rental must be paid in person

 

 



To register for all classes please call (416) 504-7082 #2
or email joanna@mdo-tte.org

TEACHER BIOS
Joanna de Souza: Kathak

Joanna is the only Canadian born artist to achieve a Master's Degree in Kathak, through the Prayag Sangit Samiti, Allhabad,India. Her study of Kathak, which began in 1978, continues under Pandit Chitresh Das. As a recipient of many grants and awards, Joanna is respected internationally as a dancer, teacher and choreographer. Over the last twenty years, she has initiated many ground-breaking dance collaborations, with some of Canada's finest artists, including First Nations singer Sadie Buck, Suwa Daiko Japanese Taiko Ensemble, the Toronto Tabla Ensemble, Baratanatyam dancer Hari Krishnan, West African dancer, Zelma Badu-Younge, actor Anita Majumdar for her seminal work The Misfit, Butoh artist Denise Fujiwara, and musician Ian de Souza. FIREDANCE, her duet work with flamenco dancer Esmeralda Enrique, was nominated for a Dora Award and is the subject of an award winning short film and a documentary for CBC television.

Priyank Thatte : Sitar

Priyank, born in Mumbai, spent his teens working in his mother's music school, and began studying sitar with Prof. Premanand Bhat, a disciple of Ustad Vilayat Khan, of the famed Imdadkhani gharana of classical Hindustani music. After moving to Toronto in 2007, Priyank started training under Shri Ram Vakkalanka.

Calendar

2010 WINTER 1 - KATHAK & SITAR CLASS SCHEDULE

MONDAY
 
   
6:00 - 8:00 Professional training with Joanna
 
TUESDAY
 
 
6:00 - 7:00 Intermediate with Joanna
7:00-8:00 Intermediate with Joanna
 
WEDNESDAY
5:00 - 6:00 Children's class w/Joanna
6:00-7:00 Beg.3 & 4 with Joanna
7:00-8:00 NEW BEGINNER with Joanna
   
THURSDAY  
   
   
6:00-7:00 Intermediate with Joanna
7:00-8:00 Inter. 2 w/Joanna
   
SATURDAY  
   
11:00 - 12:00 Beg 4 with Joanna
12 noon - 1 pm New Beginner / w Joanna
SUNDAY  
   
11 am - 1 pm Professional training with Joanna
SITAR CLASSES  
   
10:00-11:30 am BEG 4
11:30 - 1:00 pm NEW Beginner 1 SITAR
   

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