Kuchipudi dancer Sravani Tenneti has over 600 performances

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See more at: https://www.gulfnews.com/videos  At an age when girls her age played with dolls or doodled with crayons, Sravani Tenneti was taking faltering steps to learn Bharatanatyam, one of the famous Indian classical dance forms.  #Kuchipudi #Bharatanatyam #CommunityHeartbeat

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00:00I am a Kurshidpuri dancer. I have been learning since the age of four and continuing it till

00:09now. I have performed over more than 600 performances till now and I have got few awards which are

00:16Natya Brahmari, Natya Mayuri, Sringara Mayuri and then Natya Veda and many more. I have

00:25been learning from Guru Girish Garu here who resides here. So I have learnt from him Kurshidpuri

00:32and then I have learnt in many other institutes too. Now I am continuing it from Guru Vijay

00:37Shekhar Garu who stays in Hyderabad. I am learning from bottom. I have performed in

00:45India almost all over India. So which is I have performed in Guruvayur temple in Kerala

00:53then Atukal temple also in Kerala and then even in Tirupati where every year there is

01:00Brahmotsavam happening and then even not just Brahmotsavam even other performances that

01:06happen in Tirupati and then even in Vizag in Kala Bharati. Then coming UAE I have performed

01:14almost everywhere. Firstly it is my parents who have encouraged me to pursue my dance

01:20career. I think they have got to know my interest when I was small when I was watching

01:28a movie called Stothilayalu in which the boy dances on a plate and while dancing on the

01:36plate he gets blood. So looking at that I run to the kitchen and then I bring all the

01:41plates and then I start dancing and then I used to tell my parents why am I not getting

01:46blood why am I not getting blood. I think that's when they must have got the interest

01:51because if he is getting obviously I also have to get it because I am also dancing on

01:55a plate. So I think that's when they got to know I think I have some interest in it.

02:01So they sent me to dance and then it's still continuing till now. I would like to get a

02:07school of mine dance school and then teach more kids so that it doesn't stop with this

02:13generation. I want to forward it to every generation.

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