Significance of Classical Indian Dance: Rukmini Vijayakumar at TEDxHindustanUniversity

Vijayakumar, is a prominent south Indian Bharatanatyam Dancer was the first speaker. She is currently pursuing a Fitness Training Certification at UCLA, and a professional dancer’s MFA program in Bharatanatyam at the Shastra University, Chennai under Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam. In her talk she compared the Indian dance and the western by saying that the Indian dance is traditional and the western is novelistic; and she also differentiated the old dance, how it was and the present dance style, how it