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Guru Suba Parmar, Artistic Director of the Shubanjali School of Performing Arts, is an acclaimed Indian classical dancer, teacher and choreographer in New Jersey. She is a proponent of the vintage Pandanallur/Tanjore style of Bharatanatyam, and the disciple of Kalaimamani Guru Indra Rajan and Pandanallur Srinivasa Pillai, both doyens of this respected tradition. She combines a rare faculty of the arts with passion and experience to bring timeless traditions to mainstream audiences, and her original artistic creations like ‘Santa N’ Shiva,’ ‘Splash the Wonder,’ ‘Chauladevi,’ ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ ‘Lured by the Myths’, ‘Oneness’, ‘Tribute to the Legends’, ‘Tattva Tapas Tejas”, and “TATHASTU” have received rave reviews from critics and connoisseurs alike. Guru Suba Parmar has given over 400 performances and conducted her 85th arangetram in 2017. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards including the U.S. Presidential Scholar’s “Most Influential Teacher Award” in 2015, the Balasaraswati Award of Excellence presented by Muthamizh Peravai, Chennai, India in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the promotion of arts in the U.S., the “New Jersey Naatya Kalanidhi” award presented by the Krishna Vrundavana Temple in 2015 and, recently, the “Lifetime Achievement Award” by Spandana, NJ. Shubanjali School of Performing Arts, her brainchild, celebrated its 25th year in 2017. Shubanjali has won the Outstanding Dance School Award four times in a row, as awarded by the Hindu Temple, Bridgewater at its Annual Festival. Mrs. Parmar has studios in Springfield and Scotch Plains in NJ and in Manhattan, NY, and regularly performs and conducts workshops at Sivananda Yoga centers across the globe.