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JANAK KHENDRY DANCE COMPANY has a very extensive repertoire of more than one hundred and twenty-five innovative and traditional works that have been created by the Artistic Director, Janak Khendry .
| 1961–BASANT – Hyderabad, India. | |
| 1965–SHYAMA – New York City. | |
| 1968–DANCE of SHIVA – New York City. | |
| 1970–KUMARASAMBHAVAM – New York City. | |
| From 1971 to 1993 Janak Khendry devoted time to the creation of traditional Bharatnatyam repertoire of ninety important works. | |
| 1994 – The MONK, The COURTESAN and The CHARIOTEER, commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in conjunction with a special exhibition “PEACEFUL LIBERATORS”. This work has been performed in eighteen cities around the world. |  |
1995 – MOODS Of The RHYTHMS |  |
| 2005 – MOODS Of The RHYTHMS |  |
| 1995 – SURYA This work has been performed in fifteen cities. |  |
| 1997 – PANCHAKALYANAKA In 1999 this work was performed in Philadelphia at the international JAINA conference for the record audience of nine thousand people. |  |
| 1998 – GAYATRI This work had nineteen performances in Canada and India and was sponsored by the Department of South Asian Studies, University of Toronto. |  |
| 2005 – GAYATRI |  |
| 1999 – SOUNDS of the HILLS |  |
| 2000 – WOMEN LIBERATED This work was sponsored by the Department of South Asian Studies, University of Toronto. |  |
| 2001 – RAIN OF NECTAR; ADORATION OF SHIVA; VISHNU IN VAIKUNT | |
| 2002 – GAURI PUTTRA; THREE GODDESSES; A GOD IS BORN; SPRING IN HEAVEN | |
| 2003 – DANCING TO THE FLUTE | |
| The innovative repertoire of JANAK KHENDRY DANCE COMPANY has more than fifty works from fifteen minutes to two and half hours in length. | |
| 2001 – RAIN IN HEAVEN |  |
| 2002 – THREE GODDESSES |  |
| 2004 – UPANISHAD The word Upanishad literally means “come sit besides me” or to sit at the feet of a teacher. The Upanishads are essentially dialogues in the form of questions and answers between a student who desires spiritual knowledge and the teacher who leads him on the path of knowledge. The Upanishadic thought is considered to be one of the most original thoughts in the history human thought. Taken in its entirety it bears a startling resemblance to understanding of the cosmos, particle physics, quantum mechanics and theory of evolution. The most important direction the Upanishads point is the spiritual unification of ATMAN and BRAHMAN. |  |
| 2006 – DREAM of a DRUNKEN GOD DREAM of a DRUNKEN GOD, idea was developed from the work of Heinrich Heine. At the banquet of the gods, our god gets drunk and falls asleep on a lonely star and in his dream creates the images of his imagination. When he wakes up, rubbing his sleepy eyes, he smiles and his creation sinks into oblivion, as if it never existed. |  |
| 2006 - CHANDRAKAUNS Chandrakauns is one of the most beautiful Ragas in the Indian music system. The word Chandra means the moon. Chandrakauns has the gentleness and brilliance of the full moon. We have given the Moon, the Moonlight and the Moon Rays, human characters and presented them in a dance work. The moon, because of its beauty, is the envy of all gods. The Moon Light, his beautiful wife and the Moon Rays, his children, are the like between heaven and earth. They carry his light, filling the space and earth. |  |
| 2009 - GANGA WHAT IS GANGA? GANGA is a river, GANGA is flow of life, GANGA is a goddess, GANGA is a beautiful woman, GANGA is the daughter of Brahma, GANGA is the consort of the Gods and GANGA is the life breath of people. Our presentation is the story of a very important river in India which has a history of four thousand years and has sustained millions of people for forty centuries. The river is one of the greatest spiritual symbols of life. GANGA is a symbol of purity and eternal cycle of life, one that pervades the Heaven, the Earth and the Underworld in Time and Space. According to Indian thinking the divine consciousness manifests through Creation, Preservation and Destruction which is connected with three supreme Gods, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the Creator, Vishnu is the Preserver and Shiva is the Destroyer. GANGA is the creation of all three Gods. The energy was started from the big toe of Vishnu, which was collected by Brahma in a Kamandal (brass pot) and given the form of a beautiful woman. Before GANGA descended on earth, she was held captive in the hair locks of Shiva and was charged with His energy. This is the first time, in our knowledge, that GANGA will be presented as an important dance work. |  |
| OUR ARCHIVES: JANAK KHENDRY DANCE COMPANY has very extensive and well documented archival records of all the works created by the Artistic Director Janak Khendry since 1961. Each work is fully documented and notated. All records are being transferred on the computer and video for the use of future dancers. | |
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