Our Roots
established deeply and firmly to support growth; the beginning
Our Mission
We strive to help ourselves and our community find art in daily life, and use it as a source of inspiration to make meaningful contributions towards ourselves, our community, and our surroundings.
NURTURE | Foster & Flourish
A large part of nurturing the mind and body is through learning the culture, tradition, and practice of the Indian Arts through the context of Bharathanatyam.
Here at Indisha we:
Strive to nurture the next generation of dancers through our classes and workshops.
Seek to provide opportunities for inspiration, the seed for learning and growing, through our community arts initiatives.
NATURE | Seek and Preserve
The nature within and around us, both, are often in dire need of awareness and preservation; however, we may not know where to start. Our initiatives have brought a caring and conscientious community together.
Indisha’s service initiatives focus on:
Stimulating inspiration in the arts through our community arts initiatives.
Drawing inspiration and instilling appreciation for nature, enough to push ourselves to care for the planet through our Plastic Free Choices initiative.
Who We Are | Founding Intent
In 2011, the couple founded the Indisha Trust, an organization that attempts ot honor the arts and spread the good cheer that it creates, to continue to be a source of inspiration to many more people in both their artistic endeavors and daily lives. This great leap in the world of arts has been an enjoyable and creatively stimulating journey so far. Indisha has also been fulfilling its aim in spreading the awareness of our classical art forms in both privileged and underprivileged communities, as a social responsibility and value of their school.
In the words of the legendary Smt. Rukmini Devi, "Kalakshetra is an institution not merely for the development of art. It exists to educate youth, not to become artists alone, but to have the right attitude towards life and art, in order to be of great service to our country." Indisha also strives to make a similar impact by helping students aspire for a greater ideal in the service of the community, through the medium of art.
(Inspired by the perspectives of Smt. Rukmini Devi Arundale)
Our Identity | Inspiration
Our logo is inspired by the "Gond Art" style, which features colorful dye-based paintings that depict various elements in nature.
We are indebted to Aisvarya Chandrashekar, for beautifully and tirelessly translating our mission, vision, and values into our logo and brand identity. Click on her link to learn about how she visualized the brand, and the intentionality behind every design decision!
Our Identity | Values Visualized
About the Duo
Imperfection is perfection to a beautiful perspective.
Such is the beautiful perspective that continues to shape the artistic journey of a Kalakshetra alumni couple, founders and directors of Indisha Fine Arts & Trust, Sri Nidheesh and Smt. Indu. With the staple perfection of the kalakshetra bani, and the attention to details of the imperfections of daily life, Indu and Nidheesh bring to their dancing an honesty and reality found in our surroundings, by highlighting the beauty and perfection in the subtle imperfections that we all live among. From this they have imbibed a mindset that their art must fulfill a social responsibility in addition to helping themselves reach a higher energy on a personal level.
The duo feels fortunate for the wealth of opportunities they were given leading to their diploma and post diploma from Kalakshetra, and attribute their success to the numerous renowned gurus who have provided guidance and training that they feel blessed to receive. Nidheesh and Indu were conferred the Yuvakalabharathi by Bharathkalachar, Chennai in the year 2015 in recognition for their artistry, and their love and dedication for this art form speaks for itself in their annual and monthly Indisha events, as they pursue this divine artistic journey together.
Indu and Nidheesh continue to be a great source of inspiration and encouragement to each other, along their journey of performing, creating good work, and taking the arts to higher levels and better places.