Saikrishnan.M
Performances
Sai’s professional qualifications are numerous and include every aspect of lighting and stage management. He is now a part time teacher with the Kalakshetra foundation as well as a full time performing artist undertaking dance programs throughout the world with the organisation.
Countries visited include Singapore, Cambodia, Laos, South Africa, Thailand, Australia, China and more recently a multi state visit to perform in the USA. Highlights of Sai’s career include performing for the prime minister of India and President China at the 2019 Indo-sino summit held in Mahabalipuram.
In May 2019 Sai Krishnan had the honour of performing as part of the Coronation Ceremony of the King of Thailand in Bangkok.
Sai Krishnan is a highly regarded Choreographer and Director of Abhinavakshetra Charitable trust (dance music institution) based in his home city of Trivandrum
- Rukmeni Devi’s birthday celebration program 2013-14
- Kalakshetra repertoire, Singapore, 2013
- Loas, Cambodia, Bangkok, and China 2014
- solo performances in various Hindu temples throughout India
- Dasyam Festival, July 2016
- ICCR, Australia, October 2016
- Kalautsav, Singapore, November 2016
- Ministry of Culture, Cambodia, January 2017
- 64th Anniversary of the Kalakshetra Foundation, 2017
- Kalakshetra’s production “Saraswathy” 2016-17
- part of Anjaneyam written by Aravind Kuppuswami which showed in Singapore in association with ICCR
- part of Nandalala dance production by smt. Anita Guha which toured throughout the USA 2018-19
- Royal Coronation ceremony celebrations in Bangkok 24th-28th May 2019
- performing in South Africa as part of Mahathma Gandhi’s 150th birthday commemorations
- privileged to preform in front of prime minister Modi and President Xi Jinping of China at the Indo-Sino Summit held in Mahabalipuram 2019
The Kalakshetra Foundation is a prestigious arts and cultural academy based in Chennia, India. As an academy it is dedicated to the preservation of the finest in traditional values of Indian arts and crafts, especially in the field of Bharatanatyam dance and Gandharvaveda music. The Academy was founded in January 1936 by the Indian theosophist, dancer and choreographer of the Indian Classical dance Rukmina Devi and her husband George Arundale. Under Arundale’s guidance the institution achieved both national and international recognition for its unique style and demand for perfectionism in dance. In 1962 Kalakshetra moved to a new campus in Besant Nagar.
In January 1994 an act of the parliament of India recognised the Kalakshetra Foundation as an Institute of national importance.