Shiv Nadar School, Noida

presents

ANANDAM
BAITHAK
Years 3 & 4

10:30 am to 12:30 pm

February 25, 26 & 27, 2020

 Welcoming Joy
Dear Parent,

Every year, the Anandam time is a time when we get together to celebrate our
children's learning in the Aha Arts programme. Children start preparing for this
event, typically held in February, right from December. In effect, this means that
the child's learning journey begins in April and ends in December, as January and
February is when the work they have done is given a final shape, and then fine-
tuned and polished. Their first or second year in the Aha programme is thus cut
short by 3 months on account of the pressure of performance.

For us, it is the beautiful process of the child discovering an interest in an art form,
finding appreciation from their peers, finding their 'Aha' moment, that is the most
precious aspect about this particular age group. We would like to give our children
a steady developmental curve to take the plunge into presenting their work to the
world when they are ready for it. We also believe that a place in the limelight is one
that must be earned at a time when a child is ready for it, and for this, we must
give them time and space while we nurture and hone their talents.

After years of discussing and working out possibilities, we decided to simplify

matters. This year onwards, the Aha presentation will be in the form of Assemblies,
presented mainly to their peers, so that children enjoy the process of preparing for
a performance and also the comfort of a safe landing. Thank you for your support
all along the way. Our children are ready to present their learning this week, and
are looking forward to your presence in the audience!

We wish them the very best of experiences.

Manjima Chatterjee

Head, Department of Arts

 Baithak Schedule
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Visual Arts Walkthrough 10:30 – 11:15 am

Parents settle in Square Circle 11:15 – 11:25 am

Lamp Lighting & Welcome Note 11:25 – 11:35 am

Hindustani Classical Vocal 11:35 - 11:55 am

Theatre Presentation
11:55 am – 12:25 pm
A True Patron

Vote of Thanks 12:25 – 12:30 pm

 Baithak Schedule
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Parents settle in Square Circle 10:20 – 10:30 am

Lamp Lighting & Welcome Note 10:30 – 10:40 am

Western Music Vocals 10:40 – 11:00 am

Theatre Presentation
11:00 – 11:25 am
Looking for a Change
Dance
11:25 - 11:50 am
Odissi and Kathak
Vote of Thanks 11:50 – 11:55 am
 Baithak Schedule
Thursday, February 27, 2020

Parents settle in Square Circle 10:20 – 10:30 am

Lamp Lighting & Welcome Note 10:30 – 10:40 am

Orchestra 10:40 – 11:15 am

Theatre Presentation
11:15 – 11:40 am
Journey
Dance 11:40 am - 12:00
Chhau and Bharatanatyam noon

Vote of Thanks 12:00 – 12:05 pm

VISUAL ARTS
Visual Arts
Mentors: Tisha Mandal, Ashok Pattanayak,
Ashima Bansal, Naorem Yaipharenbi Chanu,
Ranjith KR

During this academic year, students explored various

mediums and materials in Visual Arts. Based on the
theme ‘Relationship,’ they tried to capture family photos
through painting, and created photo frames using
cardboard and handmade paper. Students designed an
advertisement on their favorite toy using wet and dry
colors on paper and learned 3D writing. They also created
paintings and clay sculptures based on the topic ‘Empathy
and Compassion’.
Students created painting using dry and wet colours
depicting their dream city. This was a project related to the
UN Sustainable Development Goals. Some of the
students' works were selected for display at the KNMA art
exhibition based on the same topic. Students created
paper casting 3D sculptures using old plastic bottles with
tissue paper and glue. They also explored paper craft
design with paints and dry colours.
Kalpana 3S Ayati Garg 3G Shaaz Fahim 3K Madhav Sehgal 3R
Khanak Kaura 3G
Nalin Negi Das 3S Apoorv Shiv Kumar 3K Shoumilli Das 4R

Vihana Sista 3S Mehr Aneja 3G Bismann Singh 3K Ram Sharma 4R

Aditya Singhania 3S Puneet Singh 3G Shivansh Goel 3K Shambhavi Singh 4R

Kyra Khera 3S Yohaan Mortier 3G Arav Mathur 4K Mayana Gupta 4R

Ishaan Palit 3S Tanish Trilochan Mohanty 3G Vihaan Vajpeyi 4K Aarna Chaturvedi 4R

Aparajita Singh Chauhan 3S Arjun Kakkar 3G Taraksya Bhalla 4K Nikita Rangarajan 4R

Krishhiv Sharma 3S Triambika Chauhan 3G Kridai Sahni 4K Avika Tandon 4R

Aekus Singh 3S Nitin Kumar 3G Agastya Gupta 4K Arya Dhar 3C

Sayed Zurain Bukhari 3S Angad Saigal 3G Tanishka Choubey 4K Advaita Bhooshan 3C

Ryna Singh 4S Tanish Kumar 3G Shaurya Maan 4K Aarya Awasthi 3C

Bhavya Agarwal 4S Ahan Singh Makar 4G Saksham Parashar 3R Harshil Malhotra 3C

Avani Samantaray 4S Aaleahya Nagpal 4G Paakhi Kaplish 3R Rehan Khan 3C

Ayana Upadhyay 4S Kaashvi Goyal 4G Divit Agarwal 3R Avyay Bhagat 3C

Shreeshti Sahoo 4S Akshat Mahajan 3K Samaira Gupta 3R Jaisal Joon 3C

Divit Haldia 4S Misheeta Jain 3K Manish Kumar 3R Rohan Singh 3C

Ameya Baburam 4S Nandini Jain 3K Shrestha Das 3R Kazuo Imad 3C

Amyra Madan 4C Ruhveer Arora 4C Aagman Bisht 4C Avni Porwal 4C

Aarav Anand 4C Namish Mahendru 4C Aariz Talha 4C

THEATRE
 Abhijay Prakash 3C Ishika Kucchal 3S Kushagra Khatri 4G
Himanshi Singh 3R Yash Agarwal 3S Saisha Dhingra 4R
Yash Wardhan 3S
Manvi Mavi 3K Utkarsh Singh 4S
Zaira Mirza 3S
Amol Jain 3G Shreeya Mittal 4K
The Journey
Kabir Bryan Ambrose 3C
Nayonika Sen 3R Naman Marwaha 4R
Myraa Chhara 3G
Mentor: Mohammad Faheem
Neil Jha 3S Abir Singh 4C
Jahnvi Gupta 3S Viraj Singh Goyal 4C Reyaansh Goyal 3R
Creative drama is a form of process drama
Myra Mohan 3R Veertejas Singh Bajaj 4G Uddish Chhabra 3G that focuses on the use of story dramatization
Stuti Agrawal 3G Samarth Kalra 4K Ridhaan Tyagi 4R techniques. It has been used extensively to
Aarshiya Luthra 3R Reet Narula 4R Aryan Puneet Sharma 3G promote language and literature skills as well
Veer Thareja 4R as creative and critical thinking. We outline
several key factors of creative drama that
affect its effectiveness as a learning vehicle,
including learner involvement and reflection.
This year in AHA Theatre 3-4 baskets we
have been exploring various conventions of
creative drama. The themes for our
culmination showcase are:
Mission Mars
Do Not Litter
A True Patron
Mentor: Saumya Jakhmola
Lakshya Vardhan 3K Vigam Minocha 4S Diah Jain 3K
Do we all practise what we preach? We had a common
Kush Pandey 3S Ankose Jain 4S Yuvraj Singh 3K
feeling when we started addressing the issues in our real
lives that, more often than not, we say things that we seldom
act upon. We started observing people around us closely and Devavrat Bhaskar 3K Sarah Damyanti 4S Abeer Uppal 3C

came to a collective conclusion that it's easy to say things,

Shiv Aditya Garg 3G Eva Tomar 4K Abhiraj Gupta 3S
however, to act upon them is as difficult. We decided to knit
an original story together called "A True Patron", to bring
Erhaan Ansari 3C Veer Pratap Kakar 4R Ranveer Chauhan 3G
upon this message centering around a girl who, to prove to
the adults around her, starts practising what they say. When
she is grounded for not sharing her things, she turns the table Veervijay Singh Rohal 3K Aanvi Modi 4C Adih Gupta 3C

around and starts sharing generously.

Aaryaman Talwar 3S Ansh Jagdish 4K Priyanshu Chandelia 4G

Anay Nanda Gopal 3K Yuvaan Sharma 4G Malhaar Avadhesh 4S

Myra Sipani 3S Mohd. Zain 4S Himanshu Verma 4G

Prince Singh 3R Zoya Siddiqui 4R Mira Gupta 3C

Varshha Prashanth 3C Aarav Dhamija 4G Myra Khandelwal 4R

 Looking for a change
Mentor: Debraj Dutta
We started our journey at the beginning of
this academic year with a common shared
agreement on the Principles of Creative
Drama in Education but this journey wasn’t
very smooth. We, as common people, face

Mrigdha Jauhri 4G Asmi Tyagi 3R Tashna Aggarwal 3C a lot of difficulties in sustaining our lives and

Suveer Anand 4G Aviral Jindal 3G Adi 3C functioning towards their betterment. This

Vihaan Khanna 4R Suhani Singh 3G Keisha A. Khan 4G issue came up during our drama exploration

Anish Gupta 4G Ranveer Chauhan 3G Daksh Malik 4S

and we have tried to address this through
our drama. Our final creative performance
Yash Sharma 4K Paridhi Saxena 3K Akshit Bhardwaj 4R
showcase, titled ‘Looking for a Change,’ is
Ryna Khare 4S Aahan Bakshi 3C Param Prtap Dubey 3R
an attempt to draw attention to those issues
Viraj Sareen 4G Abeer Uppal 3C Vihaan Garg 4K
and seeking immediate redressal within our
Aarna Agarwal 4C Kriti Kar 3G Naitik Singh 4C
social boundaries.
Ritkriti Gaur 4C Vasundhara Thapar 3C Ahaan Bhatiani 3R

Devansh Bajpayee 4S Naisha Khanna 3K

DANCE
Odissi Kathak
Mentor: Junahi Mehta Mentor: Shailja Nalwade

The Odissi students will demonstrate the results of the The Kathak students will demonstrate the results of the
students' first forays into Odissi, such as standing & students' first forays into Kathak by way of spins, footwork,
sitting postures, sculpturesque stances, footwork, hand- hand-movements and basic rhythmic patterns along with
movements and rhythmic patterns along with padhant padhant (sound rhymes that are spoken).
(sound rhymes that are spoken).
Cilji Chaudhary 3K
Rhea Goyle 4C

The Kathak and Odissi students will present these Aryan Kumar 3R Raasha Rathi 4C

elements of their dance forms in a jugalbandi set to our Kimaya Rishi 3K Riya Bharti 4K
National Song, ‘Vande Mataram’. The poem was written
Nisha Chauhan 4S Manasvi Akula 4G
by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, composed by
Soni Kumari 4S Sarah Garg 4G
Jadunath Bhattacharya and sung by Sangeeta Katti.
Trisha Singh 4K

Chavie Yadav 3G Shriparna Sanvi 4K

Saba Dhillon 3S Aakashi Manchanda 4K

Arya Bharti 3R Avya Aggarwal 4K

Ayana Aggarwal 3R Yash Yadav 4S

Kuhu Tiwari 3R Parineeta Karrir 4C

Asmi Ahluwalia 3R Simran Sehgal 4R

Chhau
Mentor: Rajesh Sai Babu
The Chhau learning journey consisted of
basic steps of Chhau Dance, such as Chali,
Ufli and basic sitting and standing postures.

The Bharatanatyam and Chhau students will

present a jugalbandi on our National Song –
‘Vande Mataram’ where they will present
expressional sequences interspersed with Raj Singh 4C Subhika Arora 4K
pure dance movements or bol in their
Jiya Mehta 4C Yuvisha Sharma 4K
respective dance styles. This song was
written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Manisha Kumari 3R Ritisha Kalra 4S

composed by Jadunath Bhattacharya and

Saanvi Maheshwari 3C Asmi Jain 4S
sung by Sangeeta Katti.

Amira Magoo 3G Anwesha Khare 4R

 Bharatanatyam
Mentor: Radhika Kathal
This year AHA 3-4 students explored various
types of body movements with use of the
Pada Bhedas (different feet positions) in
Bharatanatyam. We focused on sustaining the
position of Araimandi - which is the basic
position of Bharatanatyam, and practiced
adavus in this position. In order to do this,
Nevaan Advani 3R Yashika Singh 4K students were exposed to different warm-ups
to train the body.
Harsika Gulati 3R Kinjal Bhargava 4K

Swarnim Garg 3G Tanya Verma 4C

Keerat Narula 3G Samaira Saxena 4R

Akshainie Sinha 4G Raunak Kapoor 4G

Swasti Joshi 4K
MUSIC
Orchestra
Mentors: Sudip Chowdhury, Kapil
Agarwal and Ajit Singh

This year the students will present their

learning of the basics of music followed by the
melody "Ode to Joy", by Beethoven. The
students will also present a medley of
instrumental folk music from the following
states of India - Assam, Gujarat and Jammu
and Kashmir.

Dev Dixit 3C Seher Dharewa 3C Aney Shankar 4S

Shreyan Shrivastav 3R Ajuni Kaur Dang 4S Aryan Sharma 4C
Moneesh Narula 3R Mehaan Pal Singh 3K Siddhant Gupta 3K
Anika Chaturvedi 3K Suvrat Chhokar 4G Vivaan Kumar 3G
Harsh Vardhan 4G Kriday Babbar 4K Aditya Nanda 4G
Abir Sharma 3C Shaurya Mahajan 4G Atharva Sharma 3K
Toshika Sadhwani 4S Achyut Raina 4C Kabir Jain 4G
Vedanshee Wadhawan 4R Rajveer Singh 3G Suyash Chhokar 4K
Veera Kumar 3C Satvik Chawla 4R Rohit Kumar 3K

Vihaan Juneja 3K Namish Kumar Sharma 4R Saarang Dev Gupta 3C

 Ayan Vankayalapati
4S
Mahir Sehgal 3S Ridhima Tomar 4C
Western Vocals
Advik Thakur 4R Parth Ranjan 3R Myra Tanvir Nizam 4R

Mentor:Theophilus Benjamin
Arhaan Mathur 4R Sujay Shekhar Sharma 4R Reet Bothra 3K

Lokesh Singh Mehra 4C Dhruv Shrimal 4G Ananya Abrol 4K

The students of Aha Music 3-4 have focused on building
Aditya Kumar 4K Pranitpal Singh Gulati 4C Vivaan Kumar 3G
the 3 pillars of singing – posture, breathing and
Pratham Ranjan 3R Ayan Gandhi 4S Aarush Krishna 3C
resonance – through various exercises. The group which
Mahish Bhalla 4S Shaunak Singh Matharoo Abir Sharma 3C stands before you have shown interest in Western
4G
Aarav Dhekial 4S Tathya Singh 4G Sanvi Bahari 4K Vocals, and will present a selection of songs from the

Avniel Goswami 3G Sifat Suri 4C Kaira Mahajan 4R repertoire built up over the year.
‘Happier’ is a song by Marshmello, which talks about the
Anav Singh 4K Sara Imam 4C
pain one feels when relationships end and one has to let
go.
‘Something just like this’ by Coldplay is about realizing
that what one needs in life is not necessarily
superheroes, legends or myths. Often, what one has is
enough, and we must learn to appreciate it.
Un Poco Loco, which translates to ‘a little bit crazy’, is a
song from the animated movie Coco, which talks about
how crazy one feels when they are in love.
Hindustani Classical Vocal
Mentor: Anindita Bannerji, Ajit Singh
Maya Hooda 4C Teesha Ambardar 4G
The Hindustani Vocal students of this year are going to present
Abhiveer 3C Ishita Nair 3C
Raag Yaman. This raag is considered to be an evening raag, sung
Taksheel Dembla 3R Advika Bansal 4K
during the first prahar (or hour) of ratri or night. Its jaati is sampurn- Anas Saifi 3G Saanvi Agarwal 3K
sampurn and all the notes are shuddha but sometimes tivra ‘ma’ is Siddhveer Chhabra 3S Dev Pandit 3S
used which gives a distinctive quality of peace and tranquility. Vedang Darbari 4S Ayaan Suri 4C
Jia Bhandari 4G Kartik Joshi 3R

The students will present the swarmalika, followed by the bandish Reyansh Tripathi 3K Sanskar Teotia 3C
Satyam Kumar 3S Taarini Mehra 3K
‘Tore Jau Re’ in Yaman-Kalyan in Teen Taal and conclude with a
Tarush Yadav 3R Amaira Bhadra 3G
beautiful Sufi qawwali ‘Nit Khair Manga’ by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
 “Art has the role in education of helping children
become themselves, instead of more like anyone else.”

- Sydney Curewitz Clemens

We look forward to
your inspiring presence!