Summary:
Situated in the lush green premises of Shankaraa Foundation, this new auditorium has a seating capacity of 300, and is a performance stage ideal for plays or dance performances. Naturally, the auditorium was inaugurated with a dance and theatre festival which will continue tillOctober 13. About the unusual name, founder of Shankaraa Foundation and a seasoned Bharatnatyam dancer, Rashme Hegde Gopi says she has a spiritual connection with the sound ‘damru’. The idea first struck her in 1998 when Shankaraa Foundation was formed. We were waiting for an auspicious day to inaugurate,” says Hegde, for whom this space is a tribute to her late father T Shankar Hegde..