Trained in Bharata Natyam by Sikkil Ramaswamy Pillai, among others, and Odissi of the Deba Prasad Das gurukul, Rajika Puri also has an MA in the 'Anthropology of Human Movement' from New York University. Apart from performing dance, she lectures and writes on Indian dance, theatre, and culture, and is active in the western theatre (she made her debut in Julie Taymor's production of The Transposed Heads at Lincoln Center, NY, and has played in films like Meera Nair's Mississippi Masala, and Deb Benegal's Split Wide Open).
