“Close your eyes. Fall in love. Stay there.” — Rumi
For me, that place has always been art.
Growing up, dance was simply a part of my life—a hobby that brought me immense joy, without the weight of ambition or the expectation of becoming a profession. I never imagined that it would one day become the very ground beneath my feet.
It is where I have found refuge when life unfolded differently from what I had imagined, where I have returned to listen, to heal, and to begin again. In many ways, art has cradled me just as much as I have devoted myself to it.
My relationship with art is an ongoing dialogue—one of listening, questioning, surrendering, and discovering.
As a Bharatanatyam artist and choreographer, I am drawn to stories that continue to echo across time. Mythology, memory, devotion, grief, justice, womanhood, and lived experience intertwined in my work, not as distant narratives but as living questions.
I return to these stories not simply to preserve them, but to converse with them—to uncover their silences, challenge their assumptions, and discover how they continue to speak to our lives today.
I believe dance has the power to hold contradictions: tenderness and rage, stillness and movement, vulnerability and strength, the personal and the universal.
It creates conversations where words fall short and invites us to pause, reflect, and feel. Every work I create is an act of inquiry—a search for meaning, connection, and truth.
If there is one thing my journey has taught me, it is this: art does not simply mirror life—it shapes it. And in allowing myself to be shaped by both, I continue to discover not only new stories, but new ways of being.
Performances
India
• Performance for the Chennai Music and Dance festival at Karthik fine arts, Chennai
• Rasa Sanje' 09 Parineeta, 40th anniversary celebrations of Venkatesha Natya Mandir, a premier classical dance institute, Bangalore
• Uday Shankar Nrityotsav, Kolkatta
• The HCL Concert series, India Habitat center, New Delhi
• National Centre for Performing Arts, Nariman Point, Mumbai
• A performance for Samskriti: The Temple of Art, Bangalore
• Natyarangam (the dance wing of the Narada Gana Sabha) at Naradha gana Sabha, Chennai
• Dharani Dance Festival, Kerala
• Bhrama Gana Sabha, Chennai
• Parthasarathy Swami Sabha, Chennai
• Kalapradarshini, Chennai
• Kinkini festival, Bangalore
• Performance for the Thalam organization based in Trichur
• Bharath Kalachar, Chennai
• "Parampara", Soorya Festival, Trivandrum
• Mylapore Fine arts, Chennai
• Performances at the Dance and Music Festival at Bharithya Vidya Bhavan, Chennai
• Karthik Fine Arts, Chennai
• Performance at the Bangalore Habba, Bangalore
• Performance at Natyanjali festival, Chidambaram
• Performance at Kalarang, Goa Lalitha Kala Academy, Bangalore
• Dance festival of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Bangalore
• Classical Dance Festival conducted by Goa Kala Academy, Goa
• Saral Vizah at Kutralam, sponsored by Eyal Isai Nataka Manram
• Sponsored by the Government Of Tamil Nadu
• Udayonmukhi dance festival, Organized by SVN Music Academy, Bangalore
• Performance for various sabhas in Tamil Nadu across Madurai, Kutralam, Karur, Chennai, Shivakashi
• Kinkini festival, Bangalore ~ "Parampara", Soorya Festival, Trivandrum
• Parangat, a festival of classical music and dance organized by South zone cultural centre, Nagpur and department of Kannada and culture, Government of Karnataka
• Nellai Sangeetha Sabha, Tirunelvelli
• Pallavotsava, Mysore
• Ankura festival, Bangalore
• Every Friday Cultural Programme organized by ICCR, [Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Bangalore
• The 12th National Kannada Samelana, New Delhi, 1994
• Performance at UNIDO conference (a division of the United Nations) Bangalore 1992
• Performance at the Malleswaram Sangeetha Sabha, Bangalore, one of the most prestigious dance organizations in the city 1990
International
• Shivrathri Festival organized by Sanatan Dharma Kendra, Sunnyvale, California, U.S.A
• Performance at the Festival of Solos hosted by Malathi Iyengar, Artistic Director, Rangoli Dance Company, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
• Hosted and performed 'Margam' in Sanjose, California,U.S.A.
• Performed in Malathi Iyengar's Ballet "Pathanjali", Los Angeles, California
• Navarathri Festival organized by Sanatan Dharma Kendra, Sunnyvale, California, U.S.A.
• Performance for Soorya Dance Company, St Louise, Missouri for a production named Rainbowl
• Performance at the Nehru Center, London
• Performance at the Youth Festival organized by Soorya, Stage and Film Society across eleven countries
• Performance for a fundraiser by The Golden Sun Foundation for world culture "Dust to Gold", Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A
• Performance at the "Festival of India" organized by ISKCON Temple, Utah, U.S.A
• Performance at the Indian Dance Festival conducted by Kerala Association of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A
• Performances at dance festivals in New Jersey, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Detroit, Delaware, Atlanta and Houston,U.S.A.
• Asian / pacific American Heritage Celebration at Bureau of Land Management, Denver, Colorado, USA
• Performance at the smoke brush foundation, Colorado Springs, U.S.A.
• ISKCON Temple [International society for Krishna Consciousness], Denver, and Utah, U.S.A.
