Krishna Zivraj-Nair

🪔 About

Krishna is the founder and artistic director and headteacher of award-winning Sanskruti Cambridge. She is winner of One Dance Teaching Mentoring programme and ISTD Bursary Award in recognition for her teaching skills. In 2020, during COVID-19 pandemic, Krishna created a virtual avatar of Sanskruti called NavSanskruti to allow her young dance students to continue practicing and performing their art form. NavSanskruti was featured on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire as well as the BBC’s web series #BBCMakeADifference. Krishna also collaborated with Cambridge City Council to create online video tutorials for the wider community as a part of Cambridge South Asian History Month. She received another commission by Cambridge City Council to create a Diwali Dance Film with her students, which was released on Diwali. Krishna and her students were selected by Akademi as one of the three dance schools in the UK to take part in Akademi’s Oral History Project. Krishna has also managed to make Sanskruti an ISTD exam centre with the first ever ISTD Bharatanatyam exams in Cambridge in 2020. Since then over 100 students have done their ISTD dance exams in Cambridge under her guidance from Primary grades 1-6 and Vocational grades foundation to Advanced II. In 2025, Krishna received her Licentiate qualification from ISTD. In addition to Bharatanatyam, in a more relaxed and informal setting, Krishna continues to teach Bollywood style dance to adults and children. Her Bollywood dance students have performed not only in community settings but also in national and international dance competitions where they have won several awards. Krishna’s teaching focusses on developing technique with a postive mindset, focus, paying attention to detail and overall wellbeing of her students. Under her tutelage, students have completed their arangetrams, auditioned and selected at national dance platforms such as U.Dance East regionals and ISTD’s Misrana showcase and a few of them have professional toured around the country with other leading national dance companies.