Abhivyakti Dance Center was founded by the dancing duo Sri. Raghunandan. S and Smt. Manasi Raghunandan in the year 2010 in Bangalore. ‘Abhivyakti’ in its actual sense refers to the expression of hidden inner talent and the main aim behind establishing Abhivyakti was to provide a platform to the classical dance aspirants to showcase their work. Abhivyakti provides an opportunity for the art-lovers to inherit the traditions of classical arts. Apart from training, Abhivyakti aims at the all-round development of students by means of organizing workshops, exchange programs, heritage visits, educational tours, choreography sessions, lecture-demonstrations etc through which the generation of today can also learn about Indian culture, values and ethos. This is now Abhivyakti cultural trust. www.abhivyakticulturaltrust.com

Smt. Manasi Pandya Raghunandan is the festival director and has conceptualized Abhivyaki festival series 2019-20. She is an artist by soul. She is very passionate about Indian classical dance forms and other art forms and strongly believes that in this field research and references are the keys to knowledge and success. She values Indian culture and ethos and tries to create platforms that could highlight the essence and beauty of the depth of Indian arts and traditions. She has the aim to bring out new and diverse ways of looking at Indian performing arts in dynamic, challenging and unexplored ways.

She has a mission to bring the artists of various styles of dance and music, language and literature, arts and crafts from across the globe to a more closer and interactive stages where there is space for direct collaboration and exchange of ideas for not just exploring the other arts but to understand and re look at our own, vividly.

She is a passionate writer and holds a double post graduation. (She holds M.A English, M.F.A Odissi, P.G diploma French, Diploma Bharatanatyam)

She is awarded with several awards for her work, she trains students from India and abroad at Bangalore and continues to be a performer primarily. She has traveled extensively for the showcase of dance performances and workshops. She has recently performed at Spain, France, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Nepal, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Russia and three times at

Pakistan and recently at Brazil, Ethiopia and Qatar

Abhivyakti festival series 2019-2020

The festival aims at promoting Indian culture and values by the medium of arts and at preservation of traditional performing arts and crafts. The festival aims at providing young talents and aspirants a platform to come closer to the knowledge provided by the experts and seniors in the industry, thereby bridging an important gap

The vision to the make Indian strongly present in the world cultural map and being active in the World which has become a global village and connect different dots and bring a beautiful picture to life by devoting the festival's work of bringing in diverse arts and crafts all at one stage in the very humble and elegant way

We are presenting this festival in a most humble way and we have the passion to promote Indian culture and values through arts to everyone.

The world is a global village and we wish to put India strongly up on the world's cultural map.

We are looking for Social cooperation and associations and partnerships so that Art can reach to the hearts and we could have these festivals play a small but a vital role in bringing people and nations more together and closer and way much beyond boundaries and distances and differences.

It is indeed wonderful to have Alliance francaise de Bangalore as our associating partner who has supported this festival with Venue support, logistics and coordination.