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Her dance, while rooted in the classical tradition, has been lauded as an undeniable language of self-expression that is dynamic and continuously evolving, able to connect with audiences across the board, from the specialist to the layperson. Having trained under legendary gurus, Pandanallur Sri Chokkalingam Pillai and his son Sri Subbaraya Pillai, she has evolved a distinctive style of dance that has been described as, "classical and yet contemporary, precise and poetic The BBC also made a film on her for the Omnibus series.

Through lecture demonstrations, master classes, workshops and seminars in India and abroad, Valli shares her thoughts on Bharatanatyam, as a dynamic, contemporary dance language. Her early training in music under the renowned musician, T. Muktha, helped shape her ideal of an intensely musical dance style and honed her approach to dance, as a harmonious extension of verbal melody.

It is a tradition that deepened her awareness of the seamless connection - between word, meaning and music and also inspires her, as she often says, to 'write' with her body, 'sing' with her art. Her extensive research on Sangam poems, for over two decades, has resulted in a significant repertoire of dance poems. Authored between BC and AD, the Tamil poetry of the Sangam age ranks among the oldest and most sophisticated body of classical, pre-Aryan, secular poetry in India.

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Noted poet and writer Arundathi Subramaniam says of her work, " Her art may invoke the mystical, but it never mystifies. It understands abstraction, but is never abstruse. It is capable of soaring, but it never loses its vital connectedness with the earth.