Rukmini Vijayakumar is an Indian dancer, choreographer, and actress.
Image Credit: Instagram / dancerukmini
She is the artistic director of Raadha Kalpa dance company, and the director of LshVa, an art space.
Image Credit: Instagram / dancerukmini
She is the founder of The Raadha Kalpa Method, a pedagogical system of training classical Indian and particularly Bharatanatyam dancer.
Image Credit: Instagram / dancerukmini
Rukmini was born on May 28, 1984 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Image Credit: Instagram / dancerukmini
She began her dance training at the age of five under the tutelage of Guru Padmini Rao.
Image Credit: Instagram / dancerukmini
She later studied Bharatanatyam under Guru Narmada Rao and Guru Sundari Santhanam. She also studied ballet and modern dance at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.