Anjana Dasu has been learning Bharatanatyam under the tutelage of Smt. Mythili Kumar for over ten years and performed her arangetram in October 2005. Since then, and all through her undergraduate years, she has performed in several Abhinaya productions and toured with the company to New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Utah, and Missouri. Additionally, she has danced with the company at the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival in 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2011. Critics have praised her as exquisite and a nuanced dancer with glowing stage presence. She was awarded the first prize in the Papanasam Sivan competition held in 2008 and gave a solo concert under the auspices of Yuva Bharati in February 2009. She has also choreographed a piece presented at the annual Yuva Bharati Kalpana concert. She continues to teach classes for Abhinaya Dance Company. She recently received her bachelors degree in computer science from UC Berkeley and currently works as a project analyst at VMware.
