A conscientious purist of Indian classical dance, how did you bring Indian dance into western theatre?
I did the ethnic dance choreography for the Thomas Mann musical The Transposed Heads at Lincoln Center for the American Music Theatre Festival, the Electronic Opera Mass for the Dead by American Chamber Opera Company where I played the lead role and Daddy meets Durga for Mabou Mines (directed by Judy Tramor). I performed in my classical attire. Ive often told them it will work. And it has. I could not change; I was too set in my ways. As I was evolving, I realized I was only comfortable with this as my forte and I knew I would find my audience. You have performed at the Smithsonian Institution (1998), the Brooklyn Museum, the Delaware Institute for the Arts in Education, and the San Diego Museum. What sort of performances did you present at these venues? Vidya Dehejia of the Smithsonian invited me to do an interpretation for an entire 2 evenings on the Role of Sakhi in the Gita Govinda. Everything in the exhibition was on that and we did a full performance of 3 hours in Washington at t
