NATyA Dance Collective

About

We are a group of rigorously trained dancers with extensive performance experience who meet to co-produce new work that invigorates traditional Bharatnatyam vocabularies for our local communities. Originating in Open Studio sessions that have been ongoing since 2015, NATyA Dance Collective now works continuously to produce and present new work that inspires our heart and bodies, and takes conceptual and choreographic risks. In 2018, we premiered Trishul: Dancing Trident in Cambridge and Natick, and were featured at the Cambridge River Festival's Interactive Dance Stage. In 2019, we premiered Samsara: Dancing the Everyday in Cambridge. Our most recent work, growing out of our experience of grief and healing during the pandemic, Radical Love: A Collective Movement was presented at the Dance Complex in January 2024 after over a dozen local performances that we used to develop the program. NATyA Dance promotes a holistic, kind approach to Bharatanatyam through performance and education in the greater Boston area.