Choreographer
Her first choreography, ‘Sculptor’s Dream’, was judged as the best choreography at the IDA festival, 2002.
Apart from the traditional units (like alarippus, jatiswarams, shabdams, varnams, kirtanams, padams, javali-s and kavutuvams), her choreographic works that have crossed 280, also include unusual works like, pudu-kavidai, pallu and madakku. She has special interest in Classical Tamil works, and has brought many Sangam age poems as dance units. Other than individual dance units she has also done duet choreography works, group productions, thematic arangetrams, thematic solos and solo dance theatres. Her work, Purananuru’ won the best production certificate from Parthasarathy Swamy Sabha in 2012.
Lakshmi has received production grants from the State Government and Central Government several times and has brought to stage these production, each time with a unique thought and rendition.