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Rooted in flow, driven by a shared vision for art and life

"Sound is the breath that vibrates the body of dance... Music is the dance that vibrates the light of the soul"

Niyantri
Niyantri
Niyantri

WHO WE ARE

Niyantri is a singular artistic voice - as music and dance. A tour de force of two women who embody a sacred power - of being the music and dance. Offering a powerful and sensitive confluence of tradition, innovation and spirituality, Niyantri’s mission is to enable an inner awakening and inspire a collective shift in human consciousness through the transformative and healing power of art.

For Founders and Artistic Directors, Divya Devaguptapu and Ranjani Ramakrishnan, decades of immersion in the disciplines of Carnatic Music (Indian Classical Music) & Bharatanatyam (Indian Classical Dance) has become a form of consecration, reshaping their energetic spaces and drawing them closer to the divine within. Their combined presence is powerful and sensitive, where every movement and breath align seamlessly with the stories they convey, blurring the lines between two individuals and two distinct forms, merging into an experience of pure oneness.

The stories they share speak of the oneness of all existence, inviting the audience into a space where life is experienced for what it is — without division,  judgment or ideological barriers. Their narratives, often drawn from Indian mythology and their own lived experience, serve as metaphors for a universal human experience, embracing every emotion and expression as inherently valid, enabling the audience to experience a loving recognition of oneness within. In performance, they effortlessly slip into a mesmerizing trance, creating a powerful vortex drawing the audience into its embrace as an active co-traveler with this experience. The sensitivity and emotional intensity of which is expansive, flooding the space and leaving everyone unified, empowered and transformed. Their profound devotion and surrender to the very source of creation enables a spontaneous, organic flow within their expression, making improvisation not just an element of their performances but an inherent way of being.

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Niyantri
Niyantri

Performance

like waves - centered, yet in movement; gaining or losing momentum to say the story of life on stage.

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Niyantri
Niyantri

Outreach & Engagement

is depth - the deeper we seek within, the more profound our engagement and sharing with life around us.

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Niyantri
Niyantri

Production

the multi-textured roles and responsibilities we adopt to realize our vision.

Niyantri

May 10, 2019

Dance

“We are movement artistes – of music and dance. Our art originates from our respective centers and we become extensions of each other as manifestations of energy through music and dance, sound and light, formlessness and form. Art is the centripetal force that moved us inward and Niyantri found form as the centrifugal force that fired outward to experience the cyclical web of energy called Life.  Niyantri is a larger vision for what we experience and share as humans - particularly as women of today straddling two diverse worlds of east and west, head and heart, duality and oneness.”