Boston Adavu hosts a workshop with Divya Nayar.

This workshop explores how the Bharatanatyam body can move between nritta and abhinaya with greater sensitivity, clarity, and emotional intelligence. Through guided movement explorations, rhythmic work, abhinaya exercises, and composition-based learning, students will be encouraged to move beyond executing steps and toward inhabiting movement with breath, texture, musicality, and presence.

Cost: Sunday: $100; Monday: $80

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What is the legacy of the genre/form/style you are teaching?

Bharatanatyam is a classical Indian dance form from Tamil Nadu, with roots in temple, ritual, court, and performance traditions of South India. It brings together rhythm, geometry, music, poetry, storytelling, and abhinaya — the nuanced art of expression — to create a deeply embodied form of dance-theatre. Today, it continues to evolve as a living tradition, held by lineage, practice, and artistic inquiry.

What background, training, and or relationship do you have with this style/technique/class subject?

I began my training in Bharatanatyam at Kalakshetra and later trained extensively under Sri Sheejith Krishna at Sahrdaya Foundation, where I performed, studied, and taught for many years. My practice is rooted in the classical vocabulary of Bharatanatyam, while also engaging deeply with music, poetry, choreography, and embodied process. As a performer, choreographer, teacher, and founder of Dakshina, my work moves between traditional repertoire, new choreography, dance-theatre, and process-based training for dancers.

Finish this statement: I am passionate about teaching this style because…

I am passionate about teaching this style because Bharatanatyam offers a dancer far more than technique — it offers a way to think, feel, listen, remember, and transform through the body. I am especially interested in helping dancers discover how precision and emotion, structure and freedom, discipline and imagination can all live together inside the form.

How can students learn more about this offering?
Website: divyanayardance.com

Instagram: @divyanayar.dance
Dakshina: @dakshina.dance
Notes on process: @wabisabi.rasam

Contact Information
Contact:
bostonadavu@gmail.com