Sastry performing ' Chains: Love Stories of Shadows' at NCPA Mumbai (2015) Doubt and Chains: Love Stories of Shadows (2015). Some of her notable productions include Music Within (2010), Soul Cages (2012), The Prophet: Destiny. Sastry is noted for the use of contemporary and original story lines in her performances and her portrayal of multiple characters as a solo performer in them, which is a marked departure from the traditional Bharatanatyam theme of the nayika (the heroine) pining for love or pieces based on Bhakti (devotion) alone. Notable productions īy 2009, Sastry departed from performing traditional margams (the traditional order in which classical dance is performed), and started her work on theme based productions. Sydney-based critic Hamsa Venkat referred to "Savitha's crisp nritta (pure dance), clean lines and flawless aramandi was a breath of fresh air, and truly inspirational for students of dance." The Audition Panel of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival described her dancing with the words "Moves like a temple sculpture come to life". She is credited to have a high degree of technical proficiency to her kinetics of the dance form in being able to deliver it with grace and technique demanded of Bharatanatyam performers.
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She produced and choreographed a few full length presentations such as Krishna: The Supreme Mystic and Purushartha during this phase. Through the 1980s, 1990s and the first decade of the millennium, Sastry had performed mostly to traditional repertoires of Bharatanatyam. She pursued her master's degree in the United States, where she majored in Neuroscience. In 1986, she featured as the lead dancer in the Tamil film Ananda Tandavam, a production of her Guru Adyar K Lakshman. She did her schooling from the P.S Senior Secondary School in Chennai, and her graduation from the Stella Maris College. She started her training in Bharatanatyam under the tutelage of Guru Mahalingam Pillai at the Sri Rajarajeswari Bharatha Natya Kala Mandir in Mumbai, and later with Adyar K Lakshman and the Dhananjayans in Chennai. Savitha Subramaniam was born in Hyderabad, and later lived in Mumbai before her family relocated to their home town of Chennai.
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