Aparna Sindhoor

Aparna Sindhoor (born 1970/1971) is an Indian-American choreographer, dancer, and teacher. She is the artistic director of Navarasa Natyalaya Dance Theater.

Background and Education Sindhoor is from Mysore, India. She began dancing at the age of five, first learning from her mother. She also studied singing and theatre.

She holds a master's degree in English and a bachelor's degree in dance, literature, and dramatics. She received her doctorate in "Dance, Women, and Culture" from Boston University. In 2012, Sindhoor developed Encounter, a dance-theatre performance based on a short story by Mahasweta Devi for Navarasa.

Sindhoor's works have been showcased in the US, Canada, Germany, and India, including venues and festivals such as the Jacob's Pillow, Lincoln Center, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, La Mama, and New Haven Festival of Arts and Ideas. She was one of the choreographers selected for the New England Foundation for the Arts's RDDI program. Sindhoor's choreography was included in Boston-based Underground Railway Theater's "A Disappearing Number" in 2014.

In 2022, she choreographed EnActe Art's "The Jungle Book: Rudyard Revised" in Palo Alto, California.

She is a part-time faculty member at Santa Monica College.

Awards Aparna Sindhoor earned a gold medal in Dance from Mysore University. In the same year, she was also nominated for Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Choreography.

Dance theatre works River Rites (2001) A Story and A Song (2007) Encounter (2012) Snake and Ladder (2017) The Vote Dance (2020) Plantation Talas Refugee Ragas The Hunt