Shyamala Moorty

Shyamala Moorty is an award winning director, choreographer, and facilitator who values collaboration, connection and transformation through the arts.  Her interdisciplinary work draws on theater, dance, multimedia, film, yoga and community engagement.  Shyamala is a founding member of the Post Natyam Collective, a transnational, web-based coalition of dance artists whose work triangulates between art-making, activism, and theory; and the Dancing Storytellers, whose innovative performances of South Asian stories, dance and music are ideal for youth and families. As a director, Shyamala specializes in staging multidisciplinary works, devised work, solo shows, and has won multiple awards for her short films.  As a performer and creator, Shyamala has worked with Great Leap, TeAda Productions, The Rangoli Foundation, and as a soloist and principal dancer for the AMAN International Folk Dance and Music Ensemble. With an MFA in Dance from UCLA, she has taught choreography, dance theory, yoga, pilates and dance, and her performance work has toured in Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, India, the U.K. and the U.S.  She is currently a lecturer at California State University Long Beach.

“humor, depth and beauty to burn” -LA Times (2004)