Soumya Rajaram is an exponent of Bharatanatyam with over two decades of performance experience. She started training at the Kalakshetra Foundation, a premier institute for Indian classical arts and later under revered teachers and choreographers from this institute. She was awarded the senior scholarship for dance from the Government of India.

A recognized dancer and teacher in the Boston area, Rajaram performs at local festivals for New England Folk Festival Association, The Dance Complex, Jose Mateo's Dance for the World festival and she regularly travels to perform at the popular dance and music festival in Chennai, India. In recent years, she has performed at the Wellesley College, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Cleveland Aradhana Festival, the Out of the Box festival and as part of the Don Quixote ensemble of Sahrdaya Foundation. She has presented several thematic productions in collaboration with eminent classical dancers in Boston. Recently, she chosen as a finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship grant.

Rajarama is also the director of Samskriti, a dance school where she has been training several students for the past decade and half. Her students continue to excel in dance and have blossomed into choreographers who lead classical dance clubs at their colleges. Recently, Rajaram taught Bharatanatyam for the summer dance intensive program at The Jose Mateo Ballet theater.

Soumya Rajaram teaches Bharatanatyam in the Spring semesters. 

Learn more about Soumya Rajaram's work on the Massachusetts Cultural Council gallery and on her Youtube channel. 

Photo credit: Ganesh Ramachandran