Lectures and Workshops

WORKSHOPS

Divya Nayar
Divya Nayar is a Bharatanatyam dancer, choreographer, and teacher based in Chennai. Her journey with the art began at Kalakshetra and deepened through a long and formative mentorship with her guru, Sheejith Krishna. Under his guidance at the Sahrdaya Foundation, she trained rigorously and performed extensively—both as a soloist and repertory artist—developing an approach rooted in both discipline and imagination.
She went on to serve as Creative Director at Isha Samskriti in Coimbatore, where she choreographed and toured large-scale productions for international platforms, including the Save Soil movement and the Mahashivaratri festival.

Smt. Meera Sreenarayanan
The world renowned dancer, Meera, conducted an abhinaya workshop for some of the senior students of Nritya Sankalpa in April 2026. We got the wonderful opportunity to learn an endearing Krishna devarnama by Sri. Purandaradasa.

Viraja & Shyamjith Kiran
Viraja & Shyam conducted workshops for the intermediate & senior students of Nritya Sankalpa in October 2025 along with students of Samyuktam Natya Academy and Darshini Natyalaya.

Padmashri Leela Samson
Students of Nritya Sankalpa had the wonderful fortune of attending workshop by Leela Akka in September 2025 when she came to perform with her troupe, Spanda, in Atlanta

Manasvini Korukkai Ramachandran
Manasvini was trained in Bharatanatyam by her mother, Guru Smt. Revathi Ramachandran for over 22 years. Having many titles to her credit including the “Balasraswathy Award” from the Krishna Gana Sabha, “Yuva Kala Vipanchee” from the Vipanchee trust, “ Yuva Kala Bharathi” from Bharath Kalachaar, “Natana Bhava Padmam” from Brahma Gana Sabha and “Natya Chudar” from Karthik Fine Arts, she pursues the art with zeal and exuberance.
This workshop was conducted in collaboration with Mrs. Chandrika Chandran.

Viraja & Shyamjith Kiran
Alumnus of the esteemed Kalakshetra, Viraja & Shyam conducted workshops for the intermediate & senior students of Nritya Sankalpa in October 2023 along with students of Samyuktam Natya Academy under director Preetha Subramanyam.

Sri. Sheejith Krishna
An alumnus of the esteemed Kalakshetra, and currently the founder of Sahradaya Foundation, Chennai, Sheejith Krishna has been conducting workshops for the senior students of Nritya Sankalpa regularly.

Padmashri Leela Samson
Some senior students of Nritya Sankalpa have attended workshops by Leela Akka in the years 2013 and 2015 when she visited Atlanta.

Smt. Anjana Rajan
Anjanaji has conducted a theater workshop based on Maya Anjelou's "CAGED BIRD" as well as Varnam workshop for the students of Nritya Sankalpa in the years 2017 and 2019.

Smt. Revathi Srinivasaraghavan
Lecture Demonstration by Smt. Revathi Srinivasaraghavan from Mumbai in 2020.

SUMMER CAMPS

Summer Camp 2018
Younger students interacting with senior students who volunteered at the camp. As part of the camp, students learned a folk dance and improved their Bharatanatyam knowledge.

Summer Camp 2017
Artwork created by students at summer camp.

Other Events

Nritya Sankalpa & GT PULSE collaborated to present an evening of Bharatanatyam by
VIRAJA & SHYAMJITH KIRAN on Thursday, October 5 at the Academy of Medicine, Georgia Tech