Arashi Daiko, which means ‘Storm Drums’ was created in 1983 by Terry and May Yasunaka. During all these years, the group has changed and evolved, bearing to a true « melange » of backgrounds in its members while maintaining the original mission of its founders’ vision : to be this community based and dynamic group that shares this exciting aspect of Japanese culture with as many people as possible. Indeed, all who have encountered Arashi Daiko have been touched by the family atmosphere that its founders and current members continue to cultivate

In addition of getting involved in cinema and theatre, Amrita is a dancer, choreographer and sacred Indian dance teacher. For her, « dance is the hidden language of the body and soul », she also says « dance feeds me, fills me with love and joy, and helps my soul to thrive ». From the age of six years old, she began dancing in India and cities across Canada. Throughout all these past years, she has been teaching, choreographing, directing, producing and performing in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Her repertoire includes styles and traditions of Classical Indian dance, but also sacred, folk, gypsy and contemporary dances. Her choreographies are a fusion of passion where she likes to combine models of non-Indian dances therefore dance fusion with other styles such as flamenco, folk dance, oriental, Irish, Latin, Afro-Cuban dance that are part of her dance landscape in addition of introducing dance as a possible way of healing the body and soul. Graduated both in Dance and Anthropology, she lectures on various socio-cultural aspects of Indian art. As an advisor to the Ministry of Education of Quebec and Cultures without Borders (Amarrages sans frontières), she is introducing the culture of India to Quebecer students through its music and dance traditions.