Nandini Krishna is an accomplished performer-teacher of the Bharata Natyam dance style having trained under illustrious Gurus of the Sri Rajarajeshwari Bharata Natya Kala Mandir, Mumbai and Smt. Kalanidhi Narayanan, Abhinaya doyenne. For her National Scholarship in Bharata Natyam she received advanced  and core training from Kalaimamani Guru Sri T.K. Mahalingam Pillai. 

She is an empanelled artiste of The Indian Council For Cultural Relations. She was deputed by the ICCR for a teaching stint of three years to Bali, Indonesia in 2005. And was also selected by ICCR to represent at the first International Conference of Bharata Natyam in Malaysia in 2012.

She has  presented and or conducted workshops and teaching assignments in Indonesia, Canada, Australia, Kenya, Malaysia, Singapore, Germany.

She was  invited to join International and multi cultural works in Germany, Canada and Bali. 

Nandini has also served as free lance dance reviewer for leading newspapers and music and dance magazine, Sruti.

Academically she holds Masters in Statistics, Masters in English Literature, Advanced Diploma in Sanskrit and Post graduate Diploma in Yogashastra.

Her dance has been featured in documentaries, television and International film. In Bali, she was invited to conceptualize and present a television series on Indian classical dance for an Indonesian television channel. 

In 2015, she received the Senior Fellowship for Bharata Natyam from Ministry for Culture, Government of India. Her research work has been published on the Government's website on Indian culture.