KUMAARASAMBHAVAM (RETURN OF SPRING) (1986) (Collaboration)

A production by the Academy of Indian dance in London was choreographed by Dhananjayan, which saw classical theme in a contemporary vein of presentation. Music by Vidwan T V Gopalakrishnan.

The Arts Council of England invited the Dhananjayans to do another production, this time on a mythological theme. They adapted Kumarasambhavam, a completely Sanskrit work. In contrast to Jungle Book, which had no lyrics, some lyrics were used in Kumarasambhavam. T V Gopalakrishnan entered the field of dance by composing music for this dance drama. Rajkumar Bharati gave vocal support.

After doing the choreography and composing the music, Dhananjayan taught the whole thing to his students Unnikrishnan (settled in UK) and Venkatachalapathy who had just left Kalakshetra. Venkatachalapathy went to London and the whole dance drama was executed on London based artists.

In order to make the production more accessible to the audience, Narada was the sootradhar who gave explanations in English. Narada would be a character in the dance drama as well as a narrator.