{"id":215,"date":"2014-06-02T15:44:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T10:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/activitystack.in\/rivtheatergroup\/?page_id=215"},"modified":"2019-12-25T00:42:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T19:12:41","slug":"about-the-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/activitystack.in\/rivtheatergroup\/about-the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meet the\u00a0Crew<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Riy<\/strong>a Agrawal, a trained <\/strong>Bharatanatyam<\/em> dancer is deeply enthralled by literature, dance, singing and the art of theater. She learnt the art of theater through workshop organized by \u201cShantaniketan\u201d Kolkata and at MP Children\u2019s Theater Academy, Bhopal.\u00a0 She works for RIV Productions as director, script writer, l<\/strong>yricist \u00a0and a choreographer.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Isha Singhal, a 15 year old, began her journey in theatre from Mount Pisgah Christian School. When it comes to dancing Isha is on it. \u00a0She has actively learnt Kathak<\/em> and enjoys choreographing songs and routines for RIV Productions. She works for RIV Productions as the principal choreographer and director.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Varun Agrawal is a 14 year old with a flair for chess \u2013 practice scheduling, audition set-ups. This calculating mind has won 13 inter-state chess tournaments, and the crew\u2019s respect. As Director and an integral part of productions and background work, Varun forms the crew\u2019s support system.<\/p>\n

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A brilliant and dedicated actor, 15 year old Megha Shastry has been an integral part of each of our productions. \u00a0Megha\u2019s love for basketball, which she competes for at Karnataka state\u00a0level, as helped her understand the importance of body awareness, which she says has made her love the stage and presence and everything that goes with it.<\/p>\n

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Meghan Singhal is just twelve but is dreaming big. She has bagged central acting roles on the RIV stage, endearing audiences with her expression and spunk. They see glimpses of her six-year strong professional training in hip-hop and contemporary forms of dance. \u00a0She has been a valuable asset to RIV right from its founding 2012. An IACA Festival performer, Meghan\u2019s hip-hop team bagged bronze in the 2015 Dance India Asia Pacific Competition (Singapore).<\/p>\n

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Archita Agarwal\u2019s talent in dance or gymnastics makes up for her young age. She has taken part in several interschool gymnastic competitions and won Laurels for her posture and flexibility. When she isn\u2019t gearing up for her next gymnastics event, she\u2019s engaged in learning choreographies with RIV.<\/p>\n

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When she auditioned for the first time, we knew we needed this 14 year old. Nidhi Kallur has a passion for theatre and acting that is nearly unmatched. With her classical training in Kuchipudi and record of several solo dance performances, Nidhi has been instrumental in making the choreographies her own right from RIV\u2019s musical The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.<\/p>\n

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One of the most pivotal actors in the crew, Ananya Komerla is the best \u201cvillaneous\u201d actor we\u2019ve got. She\u2019s just 14 but has got the expression and laugh of a full-fledged anti-hero; her performance has never failed to awe. She has been a part of RIV since its founding in 2012.<\/p>\n

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Isha Thakar has read nearly all of Shakespeare\u2019s works. Her comfort zone, she proclaims, used to be in books, but she couldn\u2019t resist stepping down to the auditions when RIV notified the community about Anne<\/em>. \u201cI got selected\u2026 and those months of practice changed everything,\u201d she writes now. \u201cI love singing. And dancing. And acting. Would you have believed it?\u201d Her startling\u00a0 performance in Anne <\/em>as the main character garnered the attention of Mr Aloysius D\u2019Mello, the current Principal of Greenwood High International School, and he lauded her in the institution\u2019s Annual Prize Distribution Ceremony.<\/p>\n

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Meher Sadhana has been learning the tabla <\/em>for eight years out, mainly from her father, a table enthusiast. Besides volunteering in RIV\u2019s music composition sessions, Meher is an avid public speaker and has been the MC for several school and inter school events.<\/p>\n

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Rashi Dembi is 17 and has been playing the piano for seven years in the Trinity Music Curriculum. She has been actively engaged since RIV\u2019s founding in 2012, and now helps compose tunes and pen lyrics for its musicals.<\/p>\n

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15 year old Pranay Periwal has been learning the guitar since the tender age of 6 from The True School of Music, <\/em>Mumbai. He volunteers in RIV as composer and musician. Alongside him, Vidhyuth Guruvayu works to compose music on his four-year-worn guitar.<\/p>\n

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16 year old Ganeev Chaddha is a sincere RIV production cast member who has been training with us since 2014. We\u2019ve seen him come a long way from his introduction to the world of theatre when he was casted into Anne, and has been acting in our plays ever since.<\/p>\n

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Another part of RIV since 2012, dedicated Shravan Hari has aided the background crew with scriptwriting, prop collection and background music co-ordination out of a pure voluntary spirit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet the\u00a0Crew Riya Agrawal, a trained Bharatanatyam dancer is deeply enthralled by literature, dance, singing and the art of theater. She learnt the art of theater through workshop organized by \u201cShantaniketan\u201d Kolkata and at MP Children\u2019s Theater Academy, Bhopal.\u00a0 She works for RIV Productions as director, script writer, lyricist \u00a0and a choreographer. \u00a0 \u00a0 Isha […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-215","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/activitystack.in\/rivtheatergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/activitystack.in\/rivtheatergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/activitystack.in\/rivtheatergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activitystack.in\/rivtheatergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activitystack.in\/rivtheatergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/activitystack.in\/rivtheatergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/activitystack.in\/rivtheatergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/activitystack.in\/rivtheatergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}