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    Parijat Desai Dance Company performs an elegant and exciting blend of bharata natyam, modern dance, and yoga. Working at the intersections between movement techniques, choreographer Desai evolves a South Asian American aesthetic while exploring themes of spirituality, struggle, and transformation. Critics have described their performances as "matching technical sophistication with thematic relevance" (Los Angeles Times) and as a "tensely fluid...unusual fusion" (Dance Magazine). Popular with community audiences as well, their work has received enthusiastic reviews in AsianWeek and India Post.

Monica Miklas, Stanford Daily, Review of The Waste Land Project
"Dance for Discovery," India Currents, Profile
Jennifer Dunning, New York Times, Review
Smitha Radhakrishnan, article and podcast, UCLA's Asia Pacific Arts

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Photo by Sallie DeEtte Mackie, Performers: Aditi Dhruv, Anjali Tata, Parijat Desai
    
 
...a major talent who bears watching...offering clean, crisp, rhythmic
attacks...a powerhouse-  Los Angeles Times		    
 
...bold, definitive interpretations...clarity and flair predominate-  India Post