Meet Mythili Kumar, who is the founder and artistic director of Silicon Valley-based Abhinaya Dance Co. She founded the dance company in 1980 and has won many awards for her original and innovative work in dance.

Recently, we sat down to speak with Kumar to find out more about her work as a cultural ambassador and as an educator and dancer. She came to study at the University of California, Davis in the late 1970s. She got married and settled down in the San Francisco Bay area. For over 35 years she has been involved in teaching classical Indian dance forms with an emphasis on Bharatanatyam. Besides her work with Abhinaya Dance Co., Kumar has taught in various Bay area universities and colleges like Stanford, and San Jose State University. She is currently teaching a course on dance at the University of California in Santa Cruz.

This interview aired on various TV channels in the San Francisco Bay area.