Exploring concepts of Tandava and Lasya, Malini Srinivasan will present pieces choreographed by her Guru, the world-renowned C V Chandrasekhar, to find out how a student can learn from and interpret pieces which were created for a different body. She will also present some of her own choreography.

Trained initially by her mother, Radha Srinivasan, and grandmother, Komalavalli Mani, who were trained in the Pandanallur tradition by the great Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai, Malini performed her Arangetram under the guidance of Meena Raman. Now training with C V Chandrasekhar, she has also learnt Nattuvangam, Carnatic vocal, Kalaripayattu, Yoga, Sanskrit and Tamil in Chennai.

An acclaimed soloist performing regularly internationally, Malini has performed with the Padmini Chettur Group, Ragamala and Rajika Puri & Dance Troupe. She has choreographed Ode to Love’s Arrows and Tejas-Luminous. Her awards include the Dance in Queens Residency (2009), the LaGuardia Performing Arts Centre Residency (2010) and the Queens Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant (2010). Based in Queens, NY, Malini is a Lecturer at the Asian & Asian-American Studies Department at SUNY, Stony Brook and is on the dance faculty of the Young Indian Culture Group.