Performances

India Dance Wales offers large scale touring productions, smaller scale professional performances and community performances by students.

The company is highly respected throughout the UK for its innovative, accessible and enchanting productions. Our performances range from pure classical Bharata Natyam with Carnatic music (South Indian Classical) to those combining different art forms and modern visual techniques as well as cross-cultural themes.

Since its foundation, India Dance Wales has enthralled audiences and made its mark as the leaders of classical Indian Dance in Wales.

Please email admin@indiadancewales.com if you are interested in a specially choreographed performance or a past production.

Short Performances/Demonstrations

We can offer a range of short professional performances/demonstrations suitable for schools, corporate events and community events, including fairs and festivals.

Our performances are:

• - Tailored to suit your requirements and budget
• - Performed by a solo dancer or group, according to your specification
• - Performed with live musicians or recorded music

Please contact India Dance Wales for further information.

Students of varying ages, levels, gender and cultural backgrounds unite to form the group "Shishya" who are available to perform at community events.

Please contact us admin@indiadancewales.com for more details if you are an event organiser or venue manager.

Professional Touring Productions

• - Can be adapted to fit all venues - you don't need to have a stage or special lighting
• - Are choreographed to specific themes
• - Can feature specially composed live pieces or recorded music

The repertoire for the Company is detailed below.

Currently available for bookings!

Colours of Life



This unique touring production premiered in autumn 2009. With musicians and dancers from India, 'Colours of Life' fuse together Bharata Natyam dance, Carnatic music and Hindi lyrics to produce a powerful spectacle, exploring the various stages of Life.

Colours of Life is inspired by the writings of Indian mystic and spiritual teacher, Osho. A professor of philosophy, he travelled India in the 1960s as a public speaker. His controversial teachings emphasise the importance of self-awareness, love, celebration, creativity and humour and have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought.

This performance offers a thought provoking outlook on modern life. Dynamic movements, exciting rhythms and techniques of expression based on the classical Indian Dance style ‘Bharata Natyam’ are presented with an innovative and fresh combination of Carnatic (South Indian Classical) music and elements of classical Western music.

The spectator has the rare opportunity to see their 'mirror image' reflected through the expressions and movements of the dancers, blended with musical and visual delights. This touches our senses at each stage of life's journey; culminating in a moving performance.


‘Colours of Life' is an unforgettable experience; crossing cultural boundaries making the familiar and the unfamiliar accessible to all.


“This production, though based on the south Indian Bharata Natyam style, encompasses original choreography as well as balletic and modem dance movements. The result is a commendable synthesis very much in sync with the current international dance discourse.” Reginald Massey, Dance Critic for Dancing Times


Please contact India Dance Wales if you would like to book this unique performance. Limited availability for 2011 so please contact us today!


Dance Variations
A breathtaking combination of Bharata Natyam, Kuchipudi and folk dancing, Dance Variations explores the powerful world of mythology and bringing gods to life. With recorded music.
Currently available

Kalidasa
An authentic classical performance inspired by Kalidasa, the most outstanding writer of classical Sanskrit. With recorded music.
Currently available

Natya Kala
The harmonisation of classical Indian dance and Western classical music.
2006

Evoking Rasa
A combination of classical dance and storytelling with modern visual techniques developed in collaboration with BBC Wales.
2004

Tempest
An exploration of two classics: Shakespeare and Bharata Natyam.
2002

Puranic Visions
Ultra Violet imagery depicting the never-ending cycle of creation from the Puranas.
2000

Kalighat Icons
A collaboration with the National Museum and Gallery of Wales based on Kalighat paintings.
1999

Mahabharata Mabinogion
Combines with Indian 'Mahabharata' and the Welsh legends from the Mabinogion.
1998