‘Technique disguises the dancer and reveals the dance.’ - Malavika Sarukkai
Malavika Sarukkai is a renowned, internationally celebrated Bharatanatyam artist. Respectful of the potential within tradition, she believes in change with responsibility. Her choreographic interpretations extend the boundaries of Bharatanatyam to reveal the incandescent beauty of the classical language of dance with the energised articulation of a contemporary mind. Committed to an internalised creative dance process, her choreographies embody originality, intelligence, mastery of technique and a vitalised movement vocabulary, to inventively relate the world of dance to the world around us. An acclaimed artist, she is a recipient of the Padma Shri, honoured by the Government of India in 2003 and the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 2002.