Indian Dancers

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Anjana Rajan
Anjana Rajan, the great dancer has taught Bharata Natyam and folk dances to children and adults and conducted mime and movement sessions for theatre artists.
Center for World Music Balasaraswati Page
From its very first teaching programs in San Francisco in 1963, the Center for World Music was inspired to high standards in music and dance by its first two artist/teachers, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and the legendary Indian dancer, Balasaraswati.
Chandikusum
This European dancer is a disciple of US Krishna Rao and his wife and has been dancing since 1988.
Charulatha Jayaraman
�Kalaimamani� Charulatha Jayaraman has carved a niche for herself among the new genre of bharatnatyam exponents. Charulatha has had her initial grooming under the tutelage of Kalaimamani Guru Smt. Indira rajan and Guru Smt. Suba Parmar.
Dr. Manjula Lusti-Narasimhan
Manjula is a classicist in the field of Bharatanatyam. Although she has lived in Switzerland since the age of five, her talent and dedication to this art have earned her a place among the most accomplished dancers of her generation.
Geeta Chandran
History work of dance institute Natya-Vriksha and its students the articles and concerns of Geeta Chandran.
Ketaki Narain
Ketaki Narain is an upcoming Bharata Natyam dancer. Ketaki�s involvement with Bharatanatyam spans almost two decades. After fourteen years under the tutelage of Mrs. Sonal Mansingh, she has undergone intense training in expressional dance (abhinaya) with the leading Guru, Mrs. Kalanidhi Narayanan.
Kumari Kavitha Ramu
Kavitha Ramu, a senior disciple of Kalaimamaani Smt. K.J.Sarasa is a performing artist in Bharatanatyam. In addition to noteworthy performances at all the Sabhas in Chennai.
Leela Samson
Leela Samson is among India's most dynamic and technically brilliant dancers, an outstanding representative of Kalakshetra, the famed institute for the classical arts founded by the late Rukmini Devi Arundale on the Chennai ocean front.
Malavika Sarukkai
Malavika has been dancing for more than two and a half decades to diverse audiences in cities and towns all over India.
Margi Vijayakumar
Margi Vijayakumar was born on May 31, 1960. He learned Kathakali from 1975 to 1983 in Margi, Trivandrum. Main teachers were Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair, Mankulam Vishnu Namboothiri, Inchakkat Ramachandran Pilla and Thonnakkal Peethambaran. He is now working as teacher in Margi.
Meenakshi Chittranjan
Meenakshi Chittaranjan, a senior artiste of the Pandanallur dance style, performed at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, Chennai. Her traditional and unhurried style was soothing. Also remarkable, in this day and age, when dancers resort to speed and dramatisation to hold the audiences attention.
Nalini Prakash
Nalini has been learning Bharatanatyam from Padmashree Dr. Sudharani Raghupathy, at Shree Bharatalaya. Ever since she had her arangetram at the age of 10, she has been performing at some of the most important centres in the country.
Namita Bodaji
Namita has received her training from the illustrious gurus of the world renowned Sri Rajarajeswari Bharatha Natya Kala Institute, Mumbai. Her performances have been presented at various festivals, national as well as international, like the Pimpri Chinchwad festival in September 1999 and The World Folk Festival in the US state of Utah in 1988.
Natya Tarangini
The Kuchipudi dancer is a multiple person on the stage and this multiplicity is achieved by the swift change of mime which depends more on the combination of the naturalism of the dramatic content and the symbolism of the poetic intensity of feeling of an episode.
Pallavi Krishnan
- exponent of Mohini Attam.
Priya Murle
A multi-faceted personality, Priya began learning dance from the age of five at Shree Bharatalaya from Padma Sri Dr. Sudharani Ragupathy. She has also learnt Carnatic music from Padma Sri Vidvan Madurai N. Krishnan as well as Sanskrit from Pandit Thangaswami Sharma.
Priyadarshini Govind
A commerce graduate with a course in Mass Communication behind her, Priyadarshini Govind's vocation is Bharatanatyam. After her arangetram in '74 under the auspices of the Mylapore Fine Arts Club, Madras, she has been performing in all the major centers in India.
Purvi Sheth
She is a Leading Bharatnatyam (dance) artist, Director of Srujan (School of Dances), and T.V. artist. Purvi Sheth has performed in, Leicester, Londan and in some other cities of India.
Puspita Mishra
This site tells about Puspita Mishra who is a grade A odissi dancer.
R.Visweswaran and Chitra Visweswaran
This is the homepage of R.Visweswaran, Carnatic vocalist, composer and exponent of the musical instrument Santoor, and Chitra Visweswaran, one of the foremost exponents of the Indian Classical Dance form - Bharatanatyam.
Ramya Harishankar
Ramya Harishankar brings to Bharata Natyam all these qualities enhanced by vigorous training under the best gurus: the late Swamimalai K. Rajaratnam who followed the traditional Vazhuvoor style and was renowned for his musical and choreography skills and Kalanidhi Narayanan, one of the finest exponents and teachers of the art of Abhinaya, the art of expressing emotions.
Ranjana Gauhar
Ranjana Gauhar is a well-known name in the world of Indian classical dance. She is a leading exponent of the dance form 'Odissi'. She has perfected and honed her skills in Odissi to create her own distinctive style and signature in her chosen art form.
Reela Hota
Reela Hota is a dedicated exponent of Odissi. She started learning Odissi from the age of eight from Guru Gangadhar Pardhan in Orissa. She went to train extensively under 'Padmashri' Madhavi Mudgal and later from 'Padmabhushan' Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra.
Rekha Tandon
Rekha received the major part of her training in Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra�s style of Odissi from Shrimati Madhavi Mudgal at Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, New Delhi. Her performances have taken her to many parts of the world, including USA, Brazil, most of Europe, the Middle East and Japan, as well as South Africa.
Rema Shrikant
This site is about Rema Shrikant, an accomplished dancer, choreographer and guru in Indian classical dances namely Bharatanatyam and Mohiniyattam from Vadodara City of Gujarat State in India, who is a member of the International Dance Council � CID (UNESCO).
Shagun Butani
This website provides informaion about Shagun Butani, the Bharata Natyam and Kathakali dancer.
Sreelatha Vinod
Sreelatha Vinod features prominently among the finest Bharathanatyam Dancers of her generation today. Her dance combines the tradition bound purity of her Gurus 'The Dhananjayans' as well as an infectious and disarming joy in the inner realm of the art.
Srekala Bharath
Srekala Bharath was introduced to classical dance at the age of seven and made a mark in Bharatanatyam under the able guidance of her guru Kalaimamaani Smt. K.J.Sarasa of Chennai.
Srinidhi Chidambaram
Srinidhi commenced dance training at the tender age of three, and made her mark when she was just seven years old. Since then, she has given over 300 performances in all the important art centres in the country.
The Dancing Duo
The Dancing Duo - Mrinalini and Lavanya are Bharathnatyam dancers from India.Know more about these lovely dancing sisters ...
Vasumathi
Vasumathi is a talented dancer of Bharata Natyam, a classical dance style of South India. She has been groomed in this art from one of India�s s most revered and celebrated masters in the field - Kalaimamani Guru T.K. Mahalingam Pillai, of Sri Rajarajeswari Bharata Natya Kala Mandir, Mumbai.
Vasumathi Badrinathan
A performing artiste of rare sensitivity and versatility is Vasumathi Badrinathan.Vasumathi�s rich, bass voice is rightly suited for exploring the profound and evocative melodies of Carnatic music also.
Yamini Krishnamurthy
The inimitable Yamini Krishnamurthy has been for decades a symbol of the sheer power and radiance of Indian classical dance. The sheer dynamism and charisma of Yamini Krishnamurthy's stage persona ensured her the respect and adulation of people from all walks of life ever since her debut performance in Chennai (former Madras) in 1957.