"Where the hand goes, follows the eye, where the eyes go, follows the heart."
- Natyashastra
Meenakshi Dora Bittner is a performer of Bharatanatyam from Hungary.
She has been trained in this traditional dance form by Jayanthi Subramaniam, founder of Kala Darsana Foundation of Art.
Dora started her classical Indian dance studies in Budapest
in 1997.
She had her Arangetram (first solo performance),
accompanied by distinguished Carnatic musicians,
in Chennai, South India in 2005.
She has performed in Hungary and abroad at various cultural events and festivals,
including the Kumbh Mela, the biggest spiritual festival of the world, in North India in 2010.
In 2008, the first Hungarian Bharatanatyam dance film was produced and released, starring Meenakshi Dora Bittner.
Email: bittnerdora@yahoo.com