The founders, Janani Narayanan, Priya Krishnamoorthy and Roopa Parameswaran are the main choreographers in Sanhiti.

Sanhiti is fortunate to have these guest choreographers too:

Giju K. John

Giju has been a part of the professional Salsamania team since February 2001 and has choreographed a couple of pieces for Sanhiti. He is an electrical engineer by profession and works at Intel. He teaches Salsa at Salsamania, and has won numerous awards for his performances.

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Eva Hertel

Eva has also been a part of the professional Salsamania team since April 2004 and has recently choreographed one of the dances for Sanhiti. We hope she can give us her time to choreograph many more pieces in the future. She teaches Salsa at Salsamania, and has experience as a ballroom dancer. She is currently working in project management.

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Sampath Kumar Ranganathan

Sampath is an avid dancer and choreographer. He has danced and choreographed in various school and college level competitions and has choreographed a few dances in shows around the bay area, such as Thillana's music show, and of course Sanhiti's productions.

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Oanh Tretter

Oanh Tretter has been Ariel Dance Productions's director since 1987. She choreographed one of our pieces in our 2006 Annual Production "Getti Melam". A jazz dancer by training, she has strong roots in modern dance, ballroom and ballet. Oanh has taught a variety of styles including jazz, modern, lyrical, Latin, Afro, Musical Theater, and hip hop. Her teaching experience includes jazz, modern, ballet, ballroom, hip hop, and aerobics at DeAnza College, San Mateo City College, Santa Clara University, Harker Academy, Lincoln High School, Santa Clara Parks & Recreation, and the YMCA.

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Sarah Escosa (Wicked Dance Productions)

Sarah Escosa is a Hip-Hop dancer/choreographer who focuses on precise stylized movement and adding individual funk in each of her steps. The extent of her childhood training can be summarized in watching the first years of MTV music videos, attending school dances, and mimicking choreography from the 80’s dance show, Solid Gold. She works in an effort to 1) illustrate that aside from movement, personality and confidence are what light a dancer up on stage and 2) demonstrate that women can carry out masculine as well as feminine Hip-Hop moves, if there is such a definition.

While pursuing her Bachelors degree in Materials Science Engineering at U.C. Berkeley, Sarah danced in the yearly Pilipino Culture Night (PCN) for 4 years and was an original dancer for two dance troops, The Movement and Dance Junta. Sarah became a lead choreographer for the groups/shows she had been performing with. It was here that Sarah learned of her passion for not only dancing and performing, but also teaching.

Sarah moved to San Jose when hired as a project engineer for Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. For the next 3 years, she was also dance captain/teaching assistant for Ceech Hsu where she enhanced her teaching skills, popping, and learned basic locking techniques. She took this expertise to Ariel Dance Productions in August of 2004 and to Wicked Dance Productions in May of 2007.

Sarah is truly honored to have contributed to Sanhiti’s fundraiser. Best wishes to all participants in the 2007 show!

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