Madurai R. Muralidharan is a well known performing dancer, dance-guru, composer, and musician, who has composed over 120 varnams, produced several dance dramas on various themes and dance music albums in all the 35 thalas, which is unparalleled in the field of Bharatanatyam. Sri Muralidharan, is a board member of Alagappa Performing Arts (Alagappa University, Karaikkudi, TN, offering  Online degree course in Bharatha Natyam. He used to visit USA to meet all the dancers and dance teachers from various states to create awareness and explain about the degree course in Bharatha Natyam.

Sri Muralidaran has been the creative director in charge of music, choreography, script and effects for several large-scale dance musicals. His productions, incorporating both dance and drama, are based on both traditional Hindu mythology as well as stories from ancient and contemporary Tamil literature.

In November of 2009, he debuted Silapathigaram, a production based on the classic Sangam Tamil epic by Ilango Adigal, and which has since been performed worldwide from the US to New Zealand.  He is the first person to depict Amarar Kalki's historic thriller Sivakamiyin Sabadam on stage in his 2013 large-scale production lauded by The Hindu as a "zero-error show". His other large-scale productions include Yagnaseni (based on the story of Draupadi from the Mahabharatha), Avadhara Purushan (based on the Kamba Ramayana),  and Yadhava Madhava (based on the story of Krishna).