Savitha Sastry

Savitha Sastry

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Savitha Sastry Profile

  • Name:
  • Savitha Sastry
  • Other Name:
  • Savitha Subramaniam
  • Born:
  • December 11, 1969
  • Spouse:
  • A K Srikanth

Savitha Sastry Biography

Savitha Sastry is a Bharatnatyam dancer and choreographer. She is the Founder-Director of Sai Shree Arts, a Dance company which experiments with traditional Bharatnatyam dance form. It also showcases novel stories using this classical dance form.  Purushartha (2002), Sacrifice (2003), Krishna – The Supreme Mystic (2006), Music Within (2010), Soul Cages: The story of Life, Death & Beyond (2012), Yudh - Three Perspectives, One Truth (2013) and The Prophet - Destiny Divinity Doubt (2013) are her noted choreographed works. Savitha is married to A K Srikanth, who is her partner in the production company. Together they have conducted many stage shows all over India.

 

She was born as Savitha Subramaniam in Hyderabad on December 11, 1969. She spent her childhood at Mumbai and later the family relocated to Chennai. She started training in Bharatnatyam while at Mumbai under Guru Mahalingam Pillai at the Sri Rajarajeswari Bharatha Natya Kala Mandir. Later she continued training under Adyar K Lakshman and the Dhananjayans in Chennai. She did her schooling from the P.S Senior Secondary School in Chennai. She graduated from Stella Maris College. She was the lead dancer in the Tamil film Ananda Tandavam, released in 1986. She also holds a post-graduation degree Neuroscience from US.

 

She is credited for high degree of technical proficiency in her dancing performance. Since 1980’s, she performed in traditional Bharatnatyam and she carried this style till new millennium. ’Krishna: The Supreme Mystic and Purushartha’ was choreographed during this period. By 2009, Savitha departed from performing traditional Bharatnatyam dance and started her work on theme based productions. She chose contemporary themes based on published books written by her husband and has been quite successful till now.

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Updated: January 27, 2014

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