Darpana Academy of Performing Arts in Ahmedabad

Darpana Academy of Performing Arts in Ahmedabad has come a long way from being a small dance academy. Entertainment in Ahmedabad gets a touch of class with Darpana Academy of Performing Arts in Ahmedabad. One of India's most prestigious performing arts institutions, it was established by Mrinalini and Vikram Sarabhai in 1949. For the last two decades, the academy is being directed by their daughter Mallika Sarabhai. It is an arts workshop where tradition meets technology and boundaries of art and life fuse in a fascinating fashion. Performers from across the world work here together.

Today Darpana Academy of Performing Arts in Ahmedabad boasts permanent staff of over 60 and several hundred other people on projects. The departments range from performance and teaching of arts to their use as development communication through face to face interaction and software production. Darpana Academy of Performing Arts at Ahmedabad today has its credit nearly 10000 performances, audiences in 90 countries and a vibrant arts environment. What set it apart from other academies, are the artists devoted to excellence, innovation and the urge to use arts for a cause. Their vision is a symbiosis asserting the role of creativity, returning back to our roots and expressing the hitherto untold narrative with a universal medium with a purpose to reach out to people.

Darpana Academy of Performing Arts of Ahmedabad features Natarani, the modern style amphitheatre which has a special role in the cultural life of Ahmedabad. Natarani features yearlong activities together with the eco-friendly Café Natarani, the Corner Bookstore, the art gallery and library. Darpana Academy of Performing Arts of Ahmedabad has something for everyone # be it adults, children or the intellectual. Every year Darpana Academy of Performing Arts of Ahmedabad presents performances by national and international artistes from diverse spheres of theatre, music, films, storytelling, puppetry and more.