Suba Subramaniam

Choreographer, Dancer and Science Teacher

A choreographer and one of the foremost Bharat Natyam dancers in England, Suba is also a qualified Science teacher and is currently completing an MA in Education. She is an Education Director, working on Cape Farewell's youth programme.

Suba began her dance training in Malaysia and completed it under Prakash Yadagudde at The Bhavan Centre, London where she successfully staged her Arangetram in 1993. Performances include a number of productions at The Bhavan Centre with the National Youth South Asian Dance Company; and as a finalist in the New York Indian Dance Show (1993). Subathra toured nationally with Srishti Dance Creation's production Hidden Forces. In 1997 she was involved in a choreographic lab held by Sampad and was Dancer in Education for Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, 1995. Subathra has carried out extensive dance workshops in schools, colleges and universities. In September 2003, Subathra was a choreographer and performer at the "24 hour performance" in Copenhagen directed by Stuart Lynch of Paradance.

In 1997 ANGIKA was founded as a creative partnership between London based choreographers and Bharatanatyam dancers Mayuri Boonham and Subathra Subramaniam. ANGIKA is a leading British Indian dance company of the current generation and they have been recently appointed Choreographers-in-Residence at The Place, London (one of the largest and most prestigious contemporary dance institutions in the UK).

An outstanding first performance of Sudarsana in 1998 led to an unusual invitation to perform the dance again in The Place's annual Resolution! Season and established ANGIKA as the most promising British Indian dance company of the current generation. In the same year they were selected to perform in the prestigious City of London Festival's Around the World in 18 Days season where they represented India and became the first South Asian Associate Artists at The Place Theatre (1998-1999).

The company is committed to developing the powerful and rich vocabulary of classical Bharatanatyam dance with a contemporary approach. ANGIKA do not fuse Bharatanatyam with other dance forms but innovate and build within the strengths and richness of its own unique vocabulary; as they believe that true artistic freedom is within the discipline of their respective form.

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