Teaching the intricacies of Indian dance
Photo credit: Heather Walsh | Kamala Lakshmi Narayanan with students, clockwise from bottom left: Komal Keerthy, Ambika Venkatakrishnan, Sruthi Sridevan, Poorni Arunachalam and Rucha Acharya
Dressed in a brilliant peacock-blue sari, Kamala Lakshmi Narayanan is surrounded by a sea of reds, pinks, greens, oranges and golds in the costumes worn by her students as she leads them through classical Bharatanatyam Indian dance movements.
To her students and their parents, she is called Guru Kamala (Teacher Kamala) or Kamala maimi (aunt), and in her winter years she is passing down her...
