Sandani Rangana Kala Niketan is a dance institute founded in 2003 by Dr Chandani Kasturi Arachchi who is also presently the director of the institute. The institute has its center in both Sri Lanka and India. In India, the center has been registered under West Bengal Society Registration Act 27 of 1961 in 2015. The center is also affiliated to Pracheen Kala Kendra, Chandigarh and recognized as an examination center for dance since 2015. Students of the institution are provided dance education both theoretically as well as practically. They have performed well with good results in the past exams conducted by Pracheen Kala Kendra.
The institute has been organizing cultural programmes annually (in Sri Lanka and India) under the name Sandani Rangana with grand success and much appreciated by all. The institute had recently celebrated 23rd Sandani Rangana in 2023 in Sri Lanka with grand success. Sandani Rangana programmes are enriched with varieties of dances, and dance dramas all choreographed by Dr Chandani Kasturi Arachchi.
The main aim of the institute is broadening the horizon of dance and therefore to perform in different regions. Till date the institute has given performances in several important places of Sri Lanka and India. Not only imparting dance education the institute also aims to bridge the gap between the two countries through cultural exchanges as was also set up by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore.
Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.
