Mythili Prakash is a name to reckon with the in the world of Bharata Natyam. She has had the privilege of working with and learning under several respected artists and gurus, from stalwarts such as Guru Mahalingam Pillai & Guru Kalyanasundaram (of the Raja Rajeshwari Kala Mandir, Bombay), Professor C.V. Chandrasekhar, Kalanidhi Narayanan, and Sudha Chandrasekhar.

In 2006, she toured UK, France and the USA in the Spring and Fall and performed at the prestigious Festival of Narada gana Sabha’s Natyarangam, (Chennai), themed “Dasa Bharatam”, depicting the life of Gujurati poet Narsi Mehta through his own compositions.

Other performances: Dharini Fine Arts Society, Cochin, Talam Festival, Trissur, and the Soorya Festival, Trivandrum, Krishna Gana Sabha, Hamsadhwani, Bramha Gana Sabha, Nugambakam Fine Arts, Bharat Kalachar, Madras Music Academy etc. With Gowri Ramnarayan in her new play “Flame of the Forrest”, to be staged in 2007.

Awards: Chandrasekaran memorial Endowment given by the Madras Music Academy, Sanskriti Nitya Puraskar for “contribution to dance at a young age”

Reviews: Mythili has been widely reviewed positively by dance critics in both Indian national press as well as International press. Some examples are:

• “Simply Sparkling…a Bharatanatyam delight…an uncommon aggregate of talent, commitment and presence with that precious ingredient of integrity, which burnishes her art with a special luster. ....one has to constantly rein in the unbridled praise threatening to run away.……”
  
• “…it was the dancer’s inner fire that spoke. The strikingly bold stances…after electrifying movement, the chiseled beauty of the araimandi and toe-heel kudittu-metta, all executed with such joy and passion sprang from the obvious fountain of youth and agility. But what of the interpretive skill where Mythili’s capacity for internalization carried everyone on a magic carpet, the entire space charged with emotion, never allowed to be maudlin.”
  (Leela Venkataraman, The Hindu, March, 2006 New Delhi)
• “ Mythili Prakash was a symphony of deftly executed geometric lines and shapes during her three selections from the Bharata Natyam repertoire. At just 16, she also has a gift for mime, but it is the hummingbird swiftness of her allegro passages that are most striking.”
  (Jennifer Fisher, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles 1998)

Modern Dance: Mythili has also trained in Modern Dance with Janet Roston, and dancing as a member of the nationally recognized Advanced Dance Theatre Group of Beverly Hills High School in Company ’99 and 2000. She had the honor of working with Lynn Dally (director of Jazz Tap Ensemble) in her acclaimed choreography “Solea,” a collaboration of Tap, Flamenco, Modern, and Bharata Natyam, which premiered on Broadway at the prestigious Joyce Theatre for a week in New York 2002. Mythili also worked with Janet Roston in her award-winning choreography “Tanjore Project” which was showcased at the Palms Springs Dance Festival, and in ArtWallah, Los Angeles in June 2003.

Mythili’s focus remains portrayal of the beauty, grandeur, and spirituality of traditional Bharata Natyam in her performances.