About

Smt. Sheila Rubin

Founder-director of the Natyananda school and company in
Birmingham, Sheila Rubin learned from Padma Bhushan’s Sri VP
Dhananjayan and Smt. Shanta Dhananjayan and graduated from
Bharata Kalanjali in 1971. She performed extensively with the
company during her subsequent years in India. She has also learned
from Kumari Meenakshi at Rishi Valley School in Andhra Pradesh and
Padmabhushan Sri CV Chandrasekhar in Varanasi and Baroda.
Sheila received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Alabama
State Council for the Arts in 1986, to stretch the limits of this precise
and well–define art form to transcend cultural and ideological
barriers, clarifying and communicating essential human truths. This
research has bore fruit in the choreography and production of nine full
dance dramas and twenty-two individual choreography with artists in
Spanish, Middle Eastern, African, and Modern dance. Sheila has also
explored and expressed artistically both commonalities and contrasts
between cultures.