Usha Raghavan hails from Chennai, India. Having mastered Bharata Natyam under Gurus Adyar K. Lakshman and Smt. Kalanidhi Narayanan, she has performed extensively in India and abroad for more than two decades.
Some of Usha's performances include:
- Karthik Fine Arts, Chennai
- Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, Chennai
- Indian Fine Arts Society, Chennai
- NCPA, Mumbai
- FACT Lalith Kala Academy, Kerala
- Tour of France sponsored by ICCR
- The International Yoga Conference, Switzerland
- International Theater Festivals, Italy
- UNESCO, Paris, France
- A documentary on Bharata Natyam for Swiss TV. 'Feet Movements' - Italian TV
- The World Tourism Exhibition, Paris
- The Far East for the World University Services
- The Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Indian Independence in Barbados, the Caribbean
Island
- Tour of Switzerland sponsored by Pro-Helvetia
- Percussion Festival, Switzerland.
A post graduate in Indian Philosophy, she is the co-director of Kalasagara, Chennai. Usha currently lives and teaches in London.
Press reviews:
'Natya marked by refinement...' The Hindu, Chennai
'Usha's dance is rich and serene' - Pour la Danse, France
'Her mastery of the body seems absolute' - L'Unione Sarda, Italy
-' ...and the total effect was that Usha transformed the stage and the audience
and took us all up to a refined level of perception where one understood without
effort almost the instant truth that when communication is at work throught
the highest forms of art, language is but lame and halt' - Financial Express,
Chennai.