Aparna Sindhoor Dance Theater is a contemporary dance theater company founded by renowned dancer and choreographer, Aparna Sindhoor in 1991 in Mysore, India. Since moving to the US in 1996, Aparna Sindhoor has worked with writer/director Raju Sivasankaran to expand her repertoire to include more contemporary and global themes. The company has created over fifteen full length dance theater works and presented them at sold out shows to diverse audiences. Aparna Sindhoor has toured extensively in North America, Germany and India, and has been invited to perform at various venues including the Jacob's Pillow, New Haven Festival of Arts and Ideas, World Social Forum, New World Theater (Amherst, MA) and Teesri Duniya Theater (Montreal, Canada).
Critics have hailed Aparna Sindhoor as a powerful new voice for creating contemporary works of extraordinary artistry that challenge the boundaries of traditional Indian dance and yet contribute to strengthen the tradition. Aparna Sindhoor has trained in Bharatanatyam for more than twenty five years and has trained as a vocalist and an actor for more than a decade and her current work has amalgamated all these distinct art forms into a unified whole. The following words of a critic succinctly sums up Ms. Sindhoor's artistry: Aparna Sindhoor does not just dance. She becomes one with the stage.