Lakshmi Parthasarathy Athreya is an accomplished Bharatanatyam soloist and a recipient of the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar from the Sangeet Natak Akademi — a national honour awarded to young artists demonstrating exceptional talent in dance and the performing arts. A senior disciple of the esteemed danseuse Chitra Visweswaran, Lakshmi blends rigorous classical tradition with contemporary sensibility, offering deeply researched and evocative choreography.
Trained as an architect, she brings a distinctive, multidimensional perspective to her art. Based in Chennai, she leads Pravaaha – Centre for Movement, where she nurtures young dancers and promotes the rich heritage of Bharatanatyam through performances, workshops, and lecture-demonstrations.
This performance is conceived as a journey through compositions that resonate with the deepest layers of her artistic being. Each piece unfolds as both reflection and revelation — a movement inward and outward, a call to presence and transformation.
She begins with Madurapuri Chokkar Kauttuvam, an invocation that awakens the splendour of Śiva. In Rāvaṇa – The Dot That Moved, she explores Rāvaṇa as both mover and moved — the fierce devotee whose devotion stirred Śiva, and the humbled soul transformed in return by the Lord of Dance. Their relationship reveals a profound cosmic reciprocity.
In Sita, she illuminates the oneness of Prakriti and Purusha, suggesting that it is Prakriti that guides Purusha toward his destiny. With Ganga, she turns toward both the ecological and the personal. This piece meditates on legacy and responsibility, asking what kind of world humanity will leave for future generations. It stands as both plea and promise — an invocation for awareness and change.
In Chakra Alarippu, she seeks alignment and harmony between the inner and outer worlds. Here, microcosmic and macrocosmic energies converge in rhythm, breath, and movement — a surrender to the eternal dance of existence.
Through these works, Lakshmi Parthasarathy Athreya does not merely perform; she bears witness, inviting audiences to awaken and journey alongside her.