Dear Maharaj,
PAMHO AGTSP!
In response to your previous letter regarding if I have a dance title from 10+ years of training, I have almost completed Masters in Odissi dance from Gandharva Mahavidhyalaya University, Delhi and 375+ students have completed first level training from the Natyasala Dance Academy that I have founded.
ASA - Perfect. Thanks for the news. Srila Prabhupada pushed B. S. Damodara Swami to finish his PhD for Sankirtan. Of course, others he didn't think it was useful.
Regarding film-making, I have a draft cover letter I’m working on for MFA applications. I will request recommendation letters from your esteemed self, Indian Ambassador of Mexico, Gauranga Pr director of GEV, Purushottam Lila Prabhu, director of Mandi IIT etc.
I met with Yogi in Houston. He did a similar degree and has a lot of Hollywood acting experience. He gave us great advise: need to make a demo reel of 30sec-1min compiling best scenes from all the films I’ve directed and directly email to current directors and producers of Hollywood to slide in.
So while I’m in India, I’m trying to direct a few films with goddess stories and poetic English narrative and beautiful backgrounds and costumes, professional equipment etc. Timeline for this is this is next 3 months.
In the mean time I’m working on applying for adjunct faculty or visiting faculty position with the top dance universities in USA (teach in-person or through my online course ). The letter is drafted and mailing list has been created, just waiting on Mandi IIT to give me a letter of visiting faculty position (this month) to make a stronger case.
Also preparing a dance performance demo reel for this. We have been working hard for past 3 years to develop our own online pedagogy, cirriculum and books for university preaching.
In 2021 we grew 30k followers on our dance academy’s Instagram channel in only 3 months of daily posting 1 min reels or teaching or performing.
Students across the world sign up for the course seeing these ads.
Last year I stopped posting.
I have finally resumed and are collaborating with bigger channels to try to reach 100k followers on Insta this year.
Growing this following helps grow our audience for KC dance students. Our 1 min reels on dance corrections do really well (100k+ views).
I am currently reading the Ramayana, Sundara Kanda section, by Shubhavilas Prabhu and having amazing realizations as to why you chose this section for theme of your entire film series.
It’s so inspiring to tell the story of how the greatest icon for removal of obstacles in service to Lord Rama was inspired.
Audiences can really be uplifted with such inspiring messages. As soon as we finish the book (hoping this month) we will be prepared to begin script draft.
I’m in contact with the Manipuri group and as soon as I have script ready and approved by you, I will begin music composition and choreography with them and then shoot this short film (6month timeline).
We are in regular communication with Indian Mexico Ambassador, spoke with Consulate General of Houston and will soon meet DG ICCR Delhi. I’m hoping between my adjunct faculty position contacts from USA universities and the above diplomatic contacts we may source some funding for this production to tour US and Mexico.
Nevertheless I will fund shooting it as a short film dramatically shot in auditorium with props and maybe outdoors (maybe 30 min) as a prequel for your film series.
Currently 32 hrs of our pre-recorded online Odissi Course of 96hrs is already available and 375 students have enrolled and completed shorter versions of it.
I’m in the process of editing the next set of 10 or 15 hrs of video lectures. Another 10hours has to be shot before Aug. And 28hrs of theory content is being developed (and will be completed in Aug). Once this course is completed, it can be simultaneously taught in all the dance universities who respond to our adjunct faculty position application (maybe this fall semester or in the future) and many university students can spiritually benefit from this spiritual augmentation to their studies.
I have a theory book draft ready (not the workbook I showed to your esteemed self in Houston) that I hope to have each chapter completed (hoping this year, but if the Hanumat Preshaka dance drama does not permit, I’ll have to postpone this to next year).
Maharaj, I had begun choreography to Jay Radha Madhava on your instruction and have been practicing verses of Bhramara gita for past 2 months (50% recording is complete). If it’s possible you can show us the power-point slides dedicated to various ISKCON festivals that we can use as a basis to our productions, will be very grateful. I can then immediately begin mapping choreography to them and send to musicians to record while they work on the Hanumatpreshaka dance drama music composition and recordings (unless we plan on taking them on tour for live music). They charge a base amount so this can be done in same base budget.
These are the projects I’m currently focused on. Please advise if you feel some are missing or some need to be removed or priorities reassigned. Thank you for engaging us in such wonderful service! Each of these are long projects, I hope we can accomplish them soon so we can receive your esteemed feedback!
YAS,
SMDD
HpS - AgtSP.. Paoho. Let us smile and say that we got through about 45% of the projects and then went into scanning mode.
Can you just put this into three sumarry categories.?
