Mythili Kumar
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Mythili Kumar is a dancer, teacher
, and choreographer. She performs the Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, and Odissi styles of Indian classical dance. As founder and Director of Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose
, she has trained and presented over fifty dancers in their solo debuts and has collaborated extensively with several multi-cultural organizations.
Recent collaborative performances include:
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, and choreographer. She performs the Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, and Odissi styles of Indian classical dance. As founder and Director of Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose
San Jose, California
San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...
, she has trained and presented over fifty dancers in their solo debuts and has collaborated extensively with several multi-cultural organizations.
Recent collaborative performances include:
- The Guru with Kathak maestro Chitresh Das and his dance company,
- In the Spirit (1993) with JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese drumming corps San Jose Taiko, with Margaret Wingrove and her modern dance company; - The Ramayana (1997) with the Balinese music and dance ensemble GamelanGamelanA gamelan is a musical ensemble from Indonesia, typically from the islands of Bali or Java, featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings. Vocalists may also be included....
Sekar Jaya and - Vande Mataram - Mother, I bow to thee (1997) featuring three different Indian classical dance styles;
- The Power of Saturn (1999) with Shadow Master Larry Reed and Shadow Light Productions
- Gandhi - the Mahatma for the Asian Art MuseumAsian Art Museum of San FranciscoThe Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is a museum in San Francisco, California, United States. It has one of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art in the world....
in San Francisco.