Viji Rao: Festival Producer and Director

Viji Rao is  the producer and director of All Indian Dance Festival and the artistic director of Three Aksha, a dance company based out of Philadelphia. In addition, she is a professional Bharatanatyam dance artist. She has established herself as a performer, choreographer, teacher and professor of dance.  She trained under the able guidance of her gurus, Late K. Shivarao and The Sridhars. Viji is a resident artist in Girard College in Philadelphia. As the Director of the All Indian Dance Festival, she curates  Indian classical and folk form performances on the world stage in Carnegie Hall . Viji hosts dance performances, workshops, and lecture demonstrations nationally and internationally.  In addition to Bharatanatyam, Viji has studied other dance forms which include Kalaripayyattu, Chhau, and ballet. Viji has participated in several international touring productions with Chitraleka & Company, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, Moby Duck and Sampad. Viji has visited Canada to participate in the touring production with Lata Pada’s Sampradaya Dance Company.  As a highly acclaimed classical artist, Viji has worked closely with Kalanidhi Narayanan, Prof. C.V. Chandrasekhar, Anita Ratnam, Bragha Bessell, Navtej Singh Johar. Over the past 5 years Viji has choreographed and toured with her dance company “Three Aksha” to different cities in the US, Canada, U.K, Indonesia, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Maldives, and India.