Padmashri Geeta Chandran is a celebrated Bharatnatyam exponent, who has synthesized the traditional knowledge of the art–form with her personal vision of dance. With a deep understanding of forms of Bharatnatyam and Carnatic Music, she presents her art through television, videos and films, theatre, choreography, dance education, dance activism and dance issue journalism.

Constantly striving to create new spaces for the classical arts and reaching out to new and young audience, the Artistic Director of Natya– Vriksha and the Professor Adjunct, Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani, she believes that dance should make a difference to life and living. She skilfully weaves abstract notions of joy, beauty, values, aspirations, myth and spirituality, through her presentations and choreographies.