Our Advisory Board
At Lets Do Something, we place utmost importance on the quality of our services. Our Advisory Board consists of eminent personalities who have achieved tremendous success in their respective professions guides us with the course content and its delivery. These experts form part of our panel and based on availability take special interest in their respective areas and their development..
Smt. Lakshmi Ramaswamy - Dance is her passion
An artist who is into active performances all while concomitantly running her own dance institution, Mudralaya, Smt.Lakshmi Ramaswamy has a pretty colourful profile meriting her with recognition in the field of Bharatanatyam. A disciple of Smt. Chitra Visweswaran, she has carved a niche for herself as a performer, teacher and choreographer. She is an ‘A’ grade artist of Doordarshan, empanelled artist of ICCR and South Zone Cultural Centre. Lakshmi also trains in ‘Karanas’ under Dr Padma Subrahmanyam, in ‘abinaya pieces’ under Smt Kalanidhi Narayanan and Tamil texts under Dr S Raghuraman.
Smt. Lakshmi has been a recipient of the Senior Scholarship of the Central Government and she was the only Dancer selected from India for the ‘Fulbright’ fellowship during 2000 and was attached with Golden Gate University, San Francisco (USA). She has been awarded the titles of ‘Yuva Kala Bharati’, ‘Abinaya Aadalarasi’, ‘Natya Kala Ranjini’, ‘Nritya Vidhya Ratna’ and ‘Natya kala Vipanchi’and has also won the coveted Balasaraswathi endowment prize of Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, amongst several others. She was specially invited to perform in the World Ethnic Dance Festival, San Francisco and representing South Zone Cultural Centre, she was sent along with her students to Sri Lanka during Navarathri in 2003, where the group performed included performing for the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
She has led workshops In India and abroad. Holder of Twin Master Degrees in Commerce and Bharatanatyam, she has served as resource person for refresher’s course in Annamalai University. She has been external examiner for Kalakshetra and presently serves as guest faculty at Madras University for MA Bharatanatyam course, where she has registered for her Ph.D. She also regularly contributes articles and reviews in journals.
She is Founder Director of Sri Mudhraalaya where she trains young aspirants in the art. Students are both performers of solos and participate with their teacher in group productions; won many competitions and government scholarship. She also continues to conduct various workshops through USA and Canada.