Spring Time Celebration!
Beltane 2018: Saturday April 28th (Rain Date Sunday) / Festival gates open at 12pm - 7pm / At the Stone Mountain Farm.
Join The Vanaver Caravan Dance Institute this weekend at The 28th annual Beltane Festival! Enjoy a myriad of Spring Time Celebrations at the enchanting Stone Mountain Farm. See our dancers awaken the Green Man, vanquish the winter king, and rise from the ashes!
Wishing you a Happy Spring!
Shakti Caravan's Second Tour begins Today!
Livia and Bill arrived home only last week, and already Samantha & Brian Lawton, and Joel Hanna are heading off to India to complete our second Shakti Caravan Tour of 2018.
They will be teaching at the Happy Hours School in Jodphur, Rajasthan, and then dividing up: Sam & Brian to Mumbai, to get involved in the burgeoning Lindy Hop community there. And Joel, to our home city, Udaipur, to run the third consecutive Fighting for Change program (which teaches free self-defense and martial arts courses for women & girls of any age).
Learn more & stay updated at Shakti Caravan.
We wish you three love, joy, and strength on your journey!
Welcome Home, Vanavers!
Livia and Bill are touching down in New York today, after five weeks of teaching and development work for Shakti Caravan.
Here is an excerpt from Livia from our Shakti Caravan Blog:
Gathering of Shakti Caravan in Udaipur
Last night Nirmal at Mewar Foodies prepared a sumptuous meal for over 25 members of Shaki Caravan. This was our way of thanking those that could join us for our final evening of this journey.
That gathering included our partners: David and Rita/ founders and directors of Big Medicine Charitable Trust and Shakti Academy, Vijay Lakshmi and her family, Sayari, Sheru and their family and ALL their amazing musicians who just finished performing at . . .
Read the rest at our Shakti Caravan blog >>>
And welcome home, Livia and Bill!
Celebrating International Women's Day, internationally.
The Shakti Caravan 2018 tour continues! Livia and Bill Vanaver are currently in Udaipur, India, working under The Vanaver Caravan and Shakti Academy's partnership umbrella, Shakti Caravan. Read reflections from Livia & Bill about their time in and around Auroville, and the moving projects they took part in creating.
Recounting United Nations Youth Assembly
Ray, Rafal, Carla, Juan, and Barbara, backstage at the United Nations Youth Assembly. 02/15/18.
Ambassadors of Goodwill.
Company members from The Vanaver Caravan performed last Thursday at the United Nations Youth Assembly. Here's what the organizers had to say . . .
"Dear Vanaver Caravan dance group,
As the Youth Assembly at the United Nations comes to a close, the organizing committee and I thank you deeply for your performance at our Gala event. The Gala was a big hit and one of the most memorable parts of the conference for the delegates. Thank you for your fantastic role in helping to make it so! Please find attached our official letter of appreciation to your group.
It has been a pleasure to work with you all. I am glad that we got to showcase your group as the unique, and stellar dance portion of the evening. My conference team and I hope to work with you again, and we will keep you in mind for future conferences and events.
Sincerely,
Klevisa Kovaci
Operations & Special Events Coordinator
Youth Assembly at the United Nations
Thank you, Friendship Ambassadors Foundation, for your kind words, and for including us as Goodwill Ambassadors. It's an honor to be a part of this work.