and festivals. She also performed at the Kathak Mahotsav in New Delhi and for several prestigious festivals in India. Samyuktha was with Abhinava Dance Company (ADC) as a principal dancer for over 10 years which led her to dvelve deeper into dance. 

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Samyuktha was accepted into the prestigious Kalakshetra Foundation, Rukmini Devi College of Performing Arts in Chennai, India. Her Gurus, Lokesh Raj, Tangamani Natarajan, Ganga Thampi and the then Director Miss Leela Samson gave her great support and training. She graduated from the dance program with a 1 year promotion, and with first class honors in 2009. Samyuktha completed her Arangretrum (debut performance) under the guidance of Gurus Kiran Subramaniam and Sandhya Kiran from Bangalore, India. She then taught at the Temple of Fine Arts in Malaysia and Singapore before joining Sampradaya Dance Academy (SDA) in Canada in 2011. As a Senior Dance Teacher at SDA, Samyuktha trained students, prepared them for Arangetrums, was instrumental in the implementation of the ISTD curriculum, was a company dancer and also was a inventory - costume manager for the entire academy. As an arts educator, Samyuktha was on the TDSB and Peel Region School Board roster where she conducted several residencies, and training sessions. She was also on the artist roster at Prologue to Performing Arts and conducted workshops at festivals such as Paprika and several others. 

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With the support of the Ontario Arts Council, Samyuktha was accepted into Arts Administration and Cultural Management program at Humber College, Toronto. She graduated from the program with honours and several accolades to her credit. Further to the program she worked with companies such as Dancer Transition Resource Centre, Sunny Artist Management, lbs per sq" performance, Toronto Arts Foundation, Jaberi Dance Theatre, Lua Shayenne Dance Company. Most recently, she worked as the Program Manager at Canadian Dance Assembly (CDA). At CDA, she worked on projects such as Decolonizing Dance, Six Nations Educational Trip, Indigenous Bus Tours in Toronto and Ottawa. She also supported the CDA conference in 2019 which was in partnership with CAPACOA. 

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To further expand her dance skill sets, she was part of Peggy Baker Dance Project's August Intensive for two consecutive years (i.e. 2015 and 2016) and trained in basic ballet with Christine Wright at The National Ballet of Canada. Samyuktha was one of the performers for the 72-Person Ball Passing at the Fall for Dance North festival in 2017. She also performed at the Toronto Newcomer Day with Anishanabee artist DJ Classic Roots in 2019. 

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Samyuktha was part of the 2020 Cultural Leadership Program at Banff Centre. Since then, she has been working diligently with the IBPOC community with a long term view of creating and fostering systemic change. Artistically, she continues to seek teaching and mentorship opportunities. She currently is taking advanced Bharatanatyam classes to enhance her performance opportunities both in Canada and overseas.

 

Currently, KDC is actively seeking performance and teaching opportunities in the National Capital Region (NCR) to share its passion of dance​. ​

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