Ranjani Saigal received her initial training in Bharatanatyam from Guru Manu Chaudhary and later from Guru Mahalingam Pillai of the Raja Rajeshwari Kalamandir in Mumbai, India. She received her training in Kuchipudi from Smt. Lakshmi Ramkumar.
She has performed extensively in India, the United States and South Africa. She is the director of the Eastern Rhythms School of dance where she has been teaching for over eleven years. Her students have won many Indian dance competitions and last year her student won the National Foundation for the Arts Honorable Mention Award for World Dance Forms. Recently Eastern Rhythms was invited by the Museum of Fine Arts to perform at their community open house that was inaugurated by the Consul General of New York. Choreography is her passion and she has created many ground breaking dance productions including a one of a kind presentation called "Dancing Nature's Art" where for the first time in the history of the Indian Classical Dance the story of the scientific concept of DNA was presented in the Bharatanatyam style which drew the attention of NPR and the Boston Globe. She is a very active member of the community and serves on the board of several organizations including the India Association of Greater Boston, MITHAS, which brings leading Indian classical music and dance presentations to New England and Springstep which is a dance organization in Medford, Ma. She was a finalist for the India New England Woman of the Year award. She serves as art critic for Indian classical arts and has published many reviews in leading music and dance magazines in India.
