Rajika Puri and Dancers was established to explore the traditional solo dance form, Bharatanatyam, in choreography that has a contemporary, post modern, flavor and involves several dancers.  Artistic director Rajika Puri (who is joined by seven dancers, many of whom are soloists in their own right) has created a suite of seven new dances entitled

With the help of vocalist Shobana Raghavan, percussionist (and violinist) A.R. Balaskandan, composer Anil Srinivasan and Grammy Award-winning sound engineer-producer Frank Wolf, Ms. Puri has created new music which also ‘plays’ with the south Indian (Carnatic) music tradition. The whole is transformed into dance-theater by opera and theater director Yuval Sharon, who also designs the visuals.