Work Experience:
• Trained and worked as a dance teacher in Sri Rajarajeswari Bharatha Natya Kala Mandir for 14 years.
• Served as a lecturer in Nalanda Nrityakala Mahavidyalaya for 3 years.
• Completed 35 years as a Dance teacher. Teaching the Tanjore style of Bharatanatyam as taught at the Sri Rajarajeswari Bharatha Natya Kala Mandir.
• Teaching Carnatic music for the past 25 years.
• Successfully guiding students for the Nritya Visharad and Nritya Alankar examinations of the Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalay Mandal Miraj.
• Successfully guiding students for the BA and MA exams in Bharatanatyam of the Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune.
• Presently teaching Carnatic Music, Bharatanatyam and Nattuvangam through Skype to students in UK, USA, Norway and Netherlands.
• Examiner for Lalit Kala Kendra, Pune University since 2009.
• Head of department, Bharatanatyam, SAMVED Conservatory of Indian Classical Dance and Music, New Jersey USA since 2012.
• Choreographed and presented more than 200 pieces in Bharatanatyam.
• Presented dance productions such as:
-Ramayana (1997, 2000, 2005),
-Jagruti [A dance drama on women’s empowerment] (2000),
-Belief, A fusion dance program with co-artistes such as Taufiq Qureshi, Louis Banks, Roop Kumar Rathod, Sonali Rathod(2006),
-Singara Velan (2013),
-Shiva Anandam (2014),
-Harihara Sutane Ayyappa (2014) etc.
• Lec-Dems at places such as Lalit Kala Kendra, Pune; Kalakshetra, Detroit USA, and on Skype for foreign based students.