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First half of the summer tour

Nanda — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:29:47 GMT

NANDA West Coast Tour Date- May 29th, 2009 - June 27th, 2009 We, the performing arts group NANDA will be touring the west coast with dates in Portland, Seattle, Las Vegas, Santa Rosa, Willits & Port Townsend. This tour is slated to be epic & we are extremely excited! We are the world’s only acrobaticalist troupe, which gives us permission to do absolutely any thing we want. Tour Dates: May 29th ~ New Old Time Chautauqua Benefit ~ Portland OR May 30th ~ Raunch ~ Portland OR June 2nd ~ Private Corporate Event ~ Seattle WA June 4th – 7th ~ Burlesque Hall of Fame – Las Vegas NV June 12th – 14th ~ Harmony Festival ~ Santa Rosa CA June 16th ~ NANDA in Willits ~ Willits CA June 19th ~ Omera Dance Studio Recital ~ Port Townsend WA June 20th ~ BOOM! Fest ~ Port Townsend WA June 23rd & 24th ~ Workshops ~ Port Townsend WA June 25th & 26th ~ A Mid-Summers Night Cabaret ~ Seattle WA June 27th ~ Chautauqua Benefit ~ Port Townsend WA If you will be in any of these areas please join us at one of our shows & or encourage all of your friends to attend. Check out what people are saying about NANDA: “Nanda’s intense physicality, humor and skill make them beloved to audiences of all ages. We hire them when ever we can. NANDA is a new classic!”  -EnJoy Productions “Nanda elevated our event, took it up another notch.. ..They did amazing work and we got all the credit! You’ll love them, you’ll love them!”  -Theresa Marquez, Marketing Dir. Organic Valley “The Nanda boys do things I always wanted the Karamozovs to do, but couldn’t hire the talent... ...Go, Nanda! Banzai!” -Howard Patterson, The Flying Karamozov Brothers "NANDA IS A FULL FRONTAL BLAST OF (LITERALLY) FLIPPED OUT, ULTRA AWESOMAZEMENT!”  -Wavy Gravy, M.C. of Woodstock & Founder of Seva Foundation “Their Mishmash of acrobatics, juggling, martial arts, slapstick comedy, vaudeville, and pure goofball energy make a Nanda show unclassifiable.”  -CJ. Jacobsen, Utilikiltarian June 2007 For more information about this tour please contact: Danny Milholland 360.385.0519 nandatown@gmail.com www.nandatown.com

Nanda is teaching workshops in Portland!!!!

Nanda — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:27:22 GMT

Nanda is hosting two 6 week workshops at the same time featuring a Stage Combat class that will contain many fun ninja skills. A Juggling / Object Manipulation class shore to balance and captivate any mind and warp it to Acrobaticalisim. All classes are located at the ST John’s Community Center up in North Portland if you are interested in signing up go to: http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/finder/index.cfm?PropertyID=680&action=ViewPark Or call: 503-823-3192. Location: 8427 N Central St Portland OR The Jist of Juggling Age: 10 & Up Instructors: Misha Fradin, Chen Pollina. Young, old, able & not! A fun, challenging & intriguing means of improving coordination, dexterity, focus & confidence. The actions are repetitive, occupying both sides of the brain, all while building skill and muscle memory. Build your competence with this life long skill. Tuesday 6:30-8pm Auditorium From 4/14-6/3 $50 287672 Theatre Stage Combat Resolution Age: 14 & Up Instructors: Tomoki Sage, Kiyota Sage. Combine essential elements of physical movement, timing, problem solving & patience. Develop safe & believable fight sequence techniques such as falls, rolls, leaps & other stunts. To achieve effect takes repetition & dedication plus teamwork. Anything is possible! Wednesday 6:30-8pm Room 3 From 4/15-6/4 $30 Thank you all for your support. Nanda. www.nandatown.com

Check this new stuff out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nanda — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:57:16 GMT

All winter long we have been anticipating the release of our new web site. Finally it is done and it is our great pleasure to launch it. The Crew at Nanda has been working super hard to create something new and epic. We give mad props (mucho kudos) to the crew for doing such a fantastic job on all the art work, web development, and video. I would also like to thank everyone who is involved with Nanda as friends, fans and family for lending the support necessary, you know who you are. Accomplishing our goals together has taken time, dedication, and hard work. We would not have succeeded in creating this huge idea without each and every one of you projecting your generosity onto us. Thank you all so very much. Please make it a point to visit our new web site at www.nandatown.com and tell all your friends about us. Also you can befriend us on Facebook, MySpace and Tribe. It is a good way to have discussions or post photos and video. And if you feel anything should change, or notice any bugs please let us know so that we might be able to improve upon them. Come check us out in Seattle at the Moisture Festival march 11th-15th and also April 4th and 5th www.moisturefestival.com. Thanks, Nanda.

Happy new year

Nanda — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:25:55 GMT

Hello to all and to all a happy new year. 2009 is a year for our team at Nanda to fully grasp our visions and goals setting them to action, to defend against evil doers, to explore new worlds, to boldly go wherever our minds decide to lead us. We must push forward in the land of time by being swifter and stealthier, like a ninja floating through a bamboo forest, only one thing in mind: his mission. So what you will see next from us we hope will excite you… as much as it did us. We are energized with this coming year and hope it will bring us good positive opportunity for creating and developing new ideas. For a couple of months we have been doing just that by working on new promo materials that will amp up our look. We call it “the Evolution of Nanda”. We don’t yet have a date for any sort of release or anything so just hang in there and spread the word. Coming up this month of January there will be a couple of shows here in Portland. On January 17th we will be at the Someday Lounge in downtown Portland for the Splenduh Salon (check it out at www.somedaylounge.com) it might not be up yet just keep checking. On January 31st and February 1st we will be performing and teaching workshops in collaboration with The New Old Time Chautauqua Benefit (check them out at www.chautauqua.org) the performance space is TBA but we know it will be held in Portland. Workshops and community show will be held at the St. John’s Community Center where there will be workshops and lectures with many incredible local individuals. Mark your calendar and keep your eyes on the lookout for this one because it’s going to be a very very exciting Chautauqua Benefit. Back in Portland OR after more than a decade of absence. Stay tuned for more details! Holidays for everyone here at Nanda have been tremendous so far, we all did some traveling to a different parts of the country and enjoyed a little time vacationing. The snow was really intense the snow fall was about 2’ record high snow fall all over the west coast made for some interesting travel plans. Over all it all fared well made many snow men and woman and birds, had snow ball fights and got to dig my car out of the snow many times. What a wonderful white holiday. On a different note Dan our manager has just gotten back from his month and half long trip to Uganda and other countries in Africa with many stories to tell. We are all really ecstatic to have him back on board as the MAN. We love the MAN. So I say farewell and adieu sending out love to all for the holidays and you in hopes that each and every one has a happy happy happy new year too. Thanks, Nanda (Misha)

Nanda and what is going on.

Nanda — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:54:29 GMT

Hello to all the wonderful people in our little world. We are currently living in Portland trying to devise a plan to come up with a feature length show that is tour worthy. However it is becoming harder than we originally thought to find the funding we need to create the idea’s we have. So with that in mind we are working on the evolution of Nanda, we are designing a new web site, creating a new promotional video, we are coming up with new everything because it is time to move into uncharted territory. We look at it as a chance to connect with people old, new, far and wide and most importantly think in different patterns than us. A time of purpose where we do a huge overhaul of everything we know and get rid of what doesn’t work. Come to our upcoming show in Seattle at the Seattle Center’s Center House. The show will start at 12pm and run 30-40 min’s. We are extremely excited to start a working relationship with the Seattle Center and hope many people come and support us. If anyone is confused of where the performance is it is where the indoor food court is. If there is anything you would like to see Nanda doing please email or call we would love to have feedback about everything we do. This is important so we can continue to change and grow. Contact us at mail@nandatown.com or call at (360)385-0519. We are in limbo and will continue to be for a little while but keep coming back and checking out the news as we have it. Thanks Nanda (Misha)