She learnt from Guru Kalaimamani K. J. Sarasa and later trained under the Thiruvalaputhur Kalyani Grand Daughters, Gopalakrishna Nattuvanar and Viralimalai Muthukannamal.

Ganesh's doctoral work was The research and reconstruction of lost repertoires of the Nayaka Period in Early Modern South India.

She has created a performance-exhibition-lecture series titled From The Attic aimed at journeying through the past performing practices, invoking multicultural memories of Sadir (Bharatanatyam).

Beholding the Attic is a special travelling exhibition curated to showcase rare sculptures, murals, scripts, costumes and photographs of courtesans of the 16th–20th centuries.

Nayaka repertoires reconstructed by her: She made her film debut through Maniratnam's Alaipayuthey, where she played the role of Shalini's elder sister Poorni.