Yuva Bharati's commitment to Indian Classical Dance and Music is commendable.

Not only does it provide a platform for talented young dancers and musicians to perform, it also gives the much needed exposure of the classical art forms to the younger generations.

The concerts are conducted in a very professional and aesthetic manner, very much to the satisfaction of the art connoisseurs.

Due to the growing population of Indian Americans in the Silicon Valley, the number of students who dedicate themselves to learning the classical arts of India offered by various schools in the Bay Area has increased tremendously. Since dance is a performing art form, these dancers need a platform to present and polish their work and after several years of learning and performing their arangetrams or solo dance debuts, they rarely get opportunities to perform unless they are part of a dance company (like ours-the Abhinaya Dance Company) that produces concerts regularly. Yuva Bharathi has consistently filled this void with its sponsorship of several concerts annually in the past five years for these young dancers. The youth choreography showcase introduced in the last two years has also generated great interest and provided challenges to these young artists.

In addition, many new immigrants to the area are also highly trained dancers from India and need an introduction to the Bay Area audiences. Yuva Bharathi has successfully introduced them in their concerts as well. To have done all of this with the help of only nominal membership fees, and a few sponsorships is indeed very creditable and it speaks highly of your core group of volunteers who have made this possible. Dance connoisseurs in the Bay area have been greatly benefited by these presentations from Yuva Bharathi.

I extend my best wishes to you for your continued success and hope that your organization will serve to inspire these next generation dancers to preserve the standards and quality that our ancient classical music and dance traditions deserve. Congratulations again.

1) It gives young upcoming dancers an opportunity to perform solo after their formal dance debuts have taken place. This opportunity is rare because the environment is such that only group shows help sell tickets and cover production costs.

2) It helps established dancers and teachers collaborate and work together.

I would like to congratulate Ms.Santa Dasu garu and Yuva Bharati team for their untiring efforts for all these years .

Congratulations and Best Wishes in all your future endeavors !!!

Teamwork, heartfelt volunteering and an encouraging attitude are the Hallmarks of 'Yuva Bharati' that I feel are enabling it to rise to be a premier organization.

It gives me great pleasure in making these heartfelt comments about 'Yuva Bharati' and 'Natya Dharmi', Foundation for Performing Arts, extends its best wishes to the organization on its 5th year of successful endeavor.

You have been serving young talented artistes in classical dance and music, ancient art forms from India and have provided a wonderful platform for them to perform, and preserve our cultural pride and heritage. The work you have done has been very fruitful, of good quality and continious.

It is very important that this organization survives and serves the community more as we as Non - Profit organizations ourselves need the support of Yuva Bharathi for our further productions.

Even though it's a relatively young organization, Yuva Bharati has already presented a number of consistently high quality programs. Their showcase event for young choreographers, "Kalpana",is one of the highlights of the Bay Area dance calendar.

May you achieve great heights and inspire communities all over the country to emulate your aims.

Yuvabharati's productions are always staged in a highly professional manner in good theatres with importance given to lighting, sound and immaculate stage management which relieves dancers and choreographers like me of any last minute tensions thereby ensuring a stress free performing experience. Having watched Yuva Bharati grow, I attribute the exalted position the organization has risen to the core team of YB. Most of them work in corporates and bring thier great work ethics coupled with extreme integrity to the running of YB, thus making lot of standardization in procedures and practices. This standardization of procedures also makes many get involved in the core running of the Organization.

Every time I go to Yuva Bharati there is a varied volunteer group working for them thus ensuring larger community participation and involvement. I would not be doing justice if I don't mention their constant thirst for innovation. Adhering to the core purpose of the organization of giving opportunity to youth to showcase their talent, the organization has been constantly coming up with innovative concepts and events. Kalpana, a student choreography event was definitely a trend setter and brought a great deal of interest and enthusiasm in the students of the art form. Swaralahari, Pushpanjali, Jagadananda karaka are all projects of YB, I would say intelligently conceptualized to be in synch with the purpose of the organization. As a director of an institution I look forward to be associated with YB in any manner to be part of this mini revolution they are bringing to the performance scene in the Bay area and all over the United States.

The Kalpana event that happens every year gives youngsters opportunity to showcase their choreography talent. We get to see talent in various dance styles.