The Director

An innovative choreographer, member of the International Dance Council (a UNESCO Organization), inducted to the the 2005 OhioDance Choreographers’ Showcase, she has been hailed as a visionary choreographer with the ability to blend different media and art forms into classical dance creating breakthrough idioms in choreography.
      After her arrangetram under Smt. Jayashree Rajagopalan, a foremost disciple of Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam, she also trained in Odissi under Gurus Bansidhar Dvivedi and Dvivedi, current staff at Odissi Research Center, Cuttack. With her mother Sathyavathi Rao, an avid connoisseur of the arts and a choreographer at heart as her first teacher and guiding light to this day, she has a natural flair for the unconventional. Varied roles like Ravana, Bharatha and Guha in Ramayana, Menaka in Shakuntala, Radha in Jayadeva’s Geeta Govinda and the tribal princess in Neela Madhava has given depth to her early training. Marriage to actor, director Srinivas Mirle helped hone her skills in stage management.
     Her debut foray into choreographing for Badal Sircar’s Bhoma with her husband as the director, has resulted in many subsequent small and large productions over the last decade. Continuing her lifelong education in dance under her gurus Smt. Jayashree Rajagopalan, Dr. Sreedhara AR and Vidushi Krupa Phadake, she trains students in the traditional style of Bharathnatyam in the Cincinnati area even as she presents forward thinking and bold productions that are contemporary in style and thought. 
        An MS MBA by training, her production themes reflect her comfort in portraying difficult issues like nuclear armament, corporate ethics, racial issues, social issues and cross cultural diversity.