The Battery Dance Festival is New York City’s longest-running free public dance festival, held outdoors each August. Every year, the festival marks India Day on August 15 with performances by artists from India and across the United States. This year’s lineup, curated by Parul Shah, featured Tanveer Alam, Jeevika Bhat, Mesma Belsare, Sindhoor Natya Navarasa, and Nava Dance Theatre.

During one of the most extensive weekends of events ever held in Salt Lake City focusing on Indian classical and contemporary dance and music, including Bharatanatyam repertoire (pronounced Bah-rah-the-na-tee-yum), Nitya Nritya Festival hosted Nava Dance Theatre from the Bay Area in an evening-length performance that was a tour de force showcase of the contemporary extensions of the Bharatanatyam movement language.

Please join Nava Dance Theater at APAP in New York this January, courtesy of Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company. Nava’s ‘Rogue Gestures’ will be performed in the AAPI Dance Festival, an annual celebration of dance and choreography that highlights the artistry and innovation of choreographers of Asian descent, presented as part of the Dance Managers Collective’s APAP showcase at City Center and the Ailey Citigroup Theatre.

Dance/USA, the national service organization for dance announces Nadhi Thekkek as one of the newest 25 recipients of the Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists (DFA) program, honoring dance and movement-based artists with sustained practices in art for social change. Selected by a national peer-review panel, each Fellowship includes a $31,000 grant that may be used at the artist’s discretion.

The California Arts Council has announced a grant award of $20,750 to Nava Dance Theatre as part of its Impact Project program during its 2025-26 fiscal year grant cycle. Support awarded will continue to benefit communities throughout the state until the end of the project cycle timeline in September 2026.

The California Arts Council has announced a grant award of $23,147 to Nava Dance Theatre as part of its Impact Project program during its 2024-25 fiscal year grant cycle. Support awarded will continue to benefit communities throughout the state until the end of the project cycle timeline in September 2025.