About Us

DanceIhayami is a Scottish based Indian dance company with its aesthetic roots in South Indian dance, in its classical and modern forms. The company explores the structure, vocabulary and meanings that arise from this medium of dance.

Dance Ihayami’s mission is to enrich the Scottish national repertoire of dance, and to create opportunities for artists from culturally diverse communities.

In support of this endeavour the company commits to providing high quality instruction and performance for people of all ages. One of our key goals for the coming years is to expand the range and reach of our work through our outreach programme to ensure that classical Indian dance, and more generally Indian arts, is an accessible and successful source of arts education and quality entertainment across Scotland.

Artistic Director and Chief choreographer Priya Shrikumar leads this multi national company of dancers. Founded in August 2003 (as successor to Dance India Scotland, founded in 1998) Priya continues to develop cross-platform and cross-cultural work and partnerships.