Raised in the Bay Area, Kamala Devam has trained in the classical South Indian dance form Bharata Natyam under Kalakshetra graduates Katherine and K.P. Kunhiraman since 1985. She has gone onto perform professionally in Malaysia, India and the United Kingdom. She later discovered an interest in contemporary dance and received her B.A. degree in Performance/Choreography from San Francisco State University in 2001. Subsequently, she has toured in the US and Mexico with San Francisco-based company California Contemporary Dancers and has also produced her own choreography, drawing on elements of Bharata Natyam, modern vocals and contemporary dance.

Kamala has been a member of the Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company in London since 2004, performing and teaching master classes throughout the UK, Italy, South Korea and Hong Kong. Kamala often conducts her own workshops for children and adults during the summer in Bharata Natyam, Pilates and contemporary dance; teaching as far as Bulgaria & Hungary to locally here in the SF Bay Area.