Dance, for me, is a body, mind and soul experience. In my career as a classical dancer, I have experienced that dance is continuous as life itself. Ergo it is a constant challenge to keep alive and contemporaries dance, in all its various forms as I practice it.

As a traditional bharathanatyam exponent from the renowned Kalakshetra School of art and dance, I have realized the sublimity of a classical mode of expression.
 
I experienced the fluidity of body and mind when I chose to delve in to modern and contemporary dance. For seven years in Chandralekha’s dance company, I performed in diverse projects and abstract themes. ‘Lilavati’ was a piece on ancient Indian mathematics. ‘Shree’ was a pronouncement on the power of the feminine principles. My travels and performances at art festivals in Russia, Germany, Italy Australia, Canada, France and the United Kingdom have been personally enriching experience. I have assimilated multi cultural art forms and diverse viewpoints in my interactions with dancers and performers across continents.

Acquiring a Masters degree in Dance Training and Education at the University of Kent, my purposeful teaching extends between Kingston and Chichester Universities. As a committed staff of the London School of Carnatic music, I take it upon myself as my duty and responsibility to impart my sacred knowledge to the younger generation of the British Asian Community. Today, as a teacher, choreographer and as always, a learner I take inspiration from Yoga, Kalari and Kolam (art of floor painting) in formulating new idioms of dance.

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* ‘Ana Karenina’, a bharathanatyam interpretation of Leo Tolstoy’s work. (1994)

* ‘Hindu Mythology”- a production by Tern Television for Channel 4, is a dance ballet on the Hindu story    of Creation. (1995)

* ‘Rhythm of Time’, ‘The Four Seasons’ is the concept that underpin this project to explore with rhythm    and space. This was specially designed for educational work at schools in the Midlands. (1998)

* ‘Kavacham’- Armour, a contemporary dance interpretation of an ancient Dravidian text- Shanmuga    Kavacham. (1998)

* ‘Spring’, is an experimental project using western classical music by Andrew Baker. (1999)

* ‘Agam’, a haiku style interpretation of love poems of Sangam literature. (2000)

* The Olympian project’- dealing with dance and disability. (2000)

* ‘Shoes’, -a metaphor for dance, linking it to the local history of Staffordshire’s glorious shoe industry in    the 18th century. (2000)

* Natya Dhrishti- a jugal bandhi with Kathak style of dancing, interpreting the painting display ofPerseus    turning Phineas to Stone, by Luca Giordano, at the National Gallery London. (2004)

* Reconstructed the original production of ’Sri’ by Chandralekha forMenakaThakkar Dance Company in    Canada for their International Dance Conference in (2009)

* Choreographed a complete repertoire for an International fund raising event for ManithaNeyam. (2010)

* Presented ‘Samarpan’- a unique project collaborating with a painter and a filmmaker for Kala Mahotsav    in Stafford. (2012)

* Baroquanatyam- an innovative project supported by Armour India-France. The string quartet ensemble    renders its tunes and tones of Baroque music to the classical nuances of Bharathanatyam. (2013)