Vidhya Subramanian has been teaching classical Indian dance in the Bay Area for almost two decades. She founded Lasya Dance Company in 1999. A number of students, including college-age dancers who have studied with Subramanian from the age of four, are steadily returning to perform in the company. In the Navarasa production, the passion of these students was evident in their portrayal of intense and complicated characters of lore such as Kannagi, Chandalika and the Gandhari.