Tanusree Shankar is the choreographer and the chief inspiration of the academy and troupe bearing her name. Tanusree, who trained for seven years under Amala Shankar, has developed a kind of choreography, which gives concrete shape to the music that inspires it and is based on the Uday Shankar’s technique of “New Dance.”

She choreographed several events, including the Asian Games, the Festival of India in the USSR and the Wills World Cup Cricket Championships. Tanusree choreographed an Indo-French Ballet called Padmavati directed by Indian filmmaker, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, in Paris in 2008. She curated Dance at Serendipity Arts Festival twice, along with India’s Premier Curated Interdisciplinary Arts Festival and a Munjal initiative for creativity that premiered in December 2016 in Goa. Recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award 2011, Tanusree has choreographed for numerous fashion shows and films in addition to the ballets presented by her troupe. Her dance company has toured extensively to more than 40 countries, performing at prestigious theatres, such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C., Epcot Center in Florida and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

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