Jayamangala Dance Company
An anklet decorated with bells jingles as Priyanka Jayanti, a dancer with the Laurel-based Jayamangala School of Dance, stamps her bare feet. The jingling grows louder as Jayanti, 20, quickly leaps toward her fellow dancers, sweeping her arms into the air and extending her fingers toward the ceiling. Jayanti is rehearsing “Prayer to the Sun God,” one of the dances she and nine other Jayamangala dancers will perform Saturday at the Atlas Intersections Festival, an annual arts festival in Washington, D.C., with more than 100 performing groups.
- Dancers from a classical Indian dance group Jayamangala rehearse at company director Shobha Subramanian’s home in Laurel on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. (Jen Rynda/BSMG)
- Dancers from a classical Indian dance group Jayamangala rehearse at company director Shobha Subramanian’s home in Laurel on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. (Jen Rynda/BSMG)
- Dancers from a classical Indian dance group Jayamangala rehearse at company director Shobha Subramanian’s home in Laurel on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. (Jen Rynda/BSMG)
- Anusha Nathan, 17, of Ellicott City rehearses with her classical Indian dance group Jayamangala at company director Shobha Subramanian’s home in Laurel on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. (Jen Rynda/BSMG)
- Company director Shobha Subramanian, left, intsructs dancers from the classical Indian dance group Jayamangala during a rehearsal at her home in Laurel on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. (Jen Rynda/BSMG)
- Amritha Jayanti, 17, of Lanham rehearses with the classical Indian dance group Jayamangala at company director Shobha Subramanian’s home in Laurel on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. (Jen Rynda/BSMG)
- Company Director Shobha Subramanian, left, instructs dancers from a classical Indian dance group Jayamangala during a rehearsal her home in Laurel on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014.
- Nisha Pawar, 21, of Greenbelt gets ready to rehearse with the classical Indian dance group Jayamangala at company director Shobha Subramanian’s home in Laurel on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014.
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