Anita RatnamAnita Ratnam, one of the leading Bharatanatayam dancers in India and a most gifted artist of India. She is a modernist passionately convinced about creating from her immediate environment and has explored various streams of movement and ritual traditions connected with classical Bharatanatyam. She is the guiding force behind Arangham Dance Theatre based in Chennai. Ensemble and solo works that echo her strong Indian/Asian aesthetic of silence, meditation, devotion and adoration, Ratnam uses her personal life experience and the full canvas of a woman's world to paint her original dance-scapes. She learned Bhartanatayam under Guru Adayar K. Lakshman, Chennai.