Ravikiran has been a popular choice to create original compositions for dance productions. It would be no exaggeration to state that he is one of the most prolific composers in the field of Indian dance today.

Ravikiran set the music for a Kuchipudi dance-drama when he was only 15. His first significant operatic dance creation was Lakshmi Prabhavam, featuring 55 compositions in 80 ragas.

This first-of-its-kind production on Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, was premiered in the Tyagaraja Festival in Cleveland in April 1997. The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, observed, "Ravikiran stuck to a classical idiom coloured by inventive instrumentation." Lakshmi Prabhavam won much acclaim among audiences in several other cities in North America and India.

Ravikiran's next production,  Savitri, was presented at the National Theatre in Melbourne, Australia, in 1998. Consisting of traditional music in the first half and innovative instrumental in the second, The Age, Melbourne, declared, "Ravikiran's compositions with strong rhythmic structures, and free form interaction with instruments is the first reason for the dancer's expansion of the language."

His other dance works include Vinayaka Vaibhavam, Pancha-kriya, Cosmos, Translation, In the Long White Moonlight and Trinity.

A noteworthy feature of his compositions is his ability to use traditional musical forms such as the varnam and tillana in unconventional formats. For instance, the 5-raga, 5-tala tillana that he composed for his opera Lakshmi Prabhavam is a departure from the normal single raga, single tala tillana.