Natya: A Living Archive

Natya: A Living Archive is a Bharatanatyam production conceived and performed by Nikitha Sreekant. It weaves together original choreography and deeply personal repertoire taught to her during her journey in natyam into a dynamic, evolving body of work. The performance treats dance as both memory and moment—an archive that is not static, but lived, felt, and continually reinterpreted. Through a curated selection of pieces, it traces the dancer’s artistic journey, where tradition meets individual voice, and inherited vocabulary becomes a site of renewal, reflection, and intimate expression.

Artist Biographies

Nikitha Sreekant

Nikitha Sreekant is a Bharatanatyam and Bharatanrityam artist with over two decades of training under stalwarts such as Smt. Divya Shiva Sundar, Sri Kalakshetra Mohanan, and Smt. Ashwini Srivatsan. She began learning at age five and was blessed by The Dhananjayans to present her arangetram under Bharata Kalanjali (OMR Branch). Known for her expressive abhinaya and research-driven choreography, Nikitha has presented solo works such as Shivarpitha and performed in Dr. Lakshmi Ramaswamy’s Sundara Kandam and Smt. Jyotsna Vaidee’s Earth Speaks 2.0, touring across North America. She is the founder of Nirmathi, a collaborative initiative creating interdisciplinary work rooted in classical traditions. She continues to choreograph and research independently while balancing her career as a Financial Systems Product Manager at MongoDB and her MBA at the University of San Francisco.