June 2017 \ Diaspora News \ ARTI MANEK
America’s Kathak Star

When in 2010 Arti Manek founded the Shankara Dance Academy (SDA) in the City of Brea in Orange County, little did she know that she would transform thousands of lives through Kathak...

Arti is married to Suru Manek, a well-known businessman and social worker in the Los Angeles area. Arti’s son Shawn is a CPA graduate from the University of Southern California and also a business graduate from the Columbia University School of Business in New York City.

As Pandit Birju Maharaj has rightly said, art is to exult and to elevate. By her life’s mission and thoroughly skillful performances and that of students at the Shankara Dance Academy, Arti has proven the Kathak legend’s enduring words right.




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