“Masks & Myths grapples with questions about the effects of colonialism and tokenism on traditional South Asian dance and music, combining a variety of percussion instruments and styles of dance to reveal differences and similarities between African and Asian cultural traditions”

Lauren Warnecke Chicago Tribune

“Pranita (Jain) Nayar of Chicago’s Mandala Arts performs What the Body Remembers, a series of solos illustrating the migration within one body from the classical Indian form of Bharata Natyam to more Western styles…reveals an admirable devotion to generational continuity”

Laura Molzahn Chicago Tribune

“(In The Story of Ram) she glows with skill…Ashwaty summoned all her talents to narrate this labyrinth of a story, as easily breaking into a classical dance, a modern dance, or a dramatic monologue. In her diversity, she was in no way diluted, she was “everyman;” she inhabited the magical “third space.”

Mitchell Oldham City Pleasures