Mrs. Malini Srinivasan

Malini Srinivasan is a third-generation Bharatanatyam dancer, teacher and choreographer. Malini is the disciple of world-renowned artist Sri C.V. Chandrasekhar. She began studying Bharatanatyam at a young age with her mother and grandmother, and performed her Arangetram (debut) under the guidance of Meena Raman. Malini lived in Chennai from 1999-2004 to pursue her study of dance and its allied art forms such as Nattuvangam, Carnatic vocal music, Kalaripayattu, Yoga, Sanskrit and Tamil.

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A critically-acclaimed soloist, Malini has presented solo Bharatanatyam to various audiences in the U.S., India and Europe. She has also performed with groups including the Padmini Chettur Group, Ragamala, Rajika Puri and Dancers and Thresh.

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Malini has choreographed solo and group Bharatanatyam pieces, including Ode to Love’s Arrows and Tejas-Luminous. She was awarded the Dance in Queens Residency (2009) the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center 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, on the dance faculty of the Young Indian Culture Group, and a Teaching Artist with City Lore.