Bindu S. Shankar

Bindu S. Shankar (13 July 1965, Madras, India) is a Bharata Natyam dancer and researcher from Chennai with a Ph.D in Art History from the Ohio State University, USA. She pursued her dissertation research on dance imagery in South Indian temples and studied the relationship between the temple tradition and the dance tradition through the 108-karana sculptural program.

In the US, Bindu founded the Vrindavan Dance Academy in San Ramon, California.