Mysuru :
Sparsha Shenoy, a disciple of Dr. Vasundhara Doraswamy, has been selected to participate in Bharathanatyam competition to be held on 11th and 12th April, 2015 at Cleveland, USA during 38th Thyagaraja Aradhana Utsava. She started learning Bharathanatyam from Dr. Vasundhara Doraswamy from the age of 5.
She has passed Vidwat exam and also holds MA from KSOU. In music, she has passed Karnatak junior music exam. Presently she is doing M.Sc. in Speech and Hearing at JSS, Mysuru.
Being CCRTI scholar for the past 14 years, she has participated in “Unity In Diversity” festival held in Delhi-2006 and again in Shillong-2011.
She has won prizes at Bala Prathibe and Kishore Prathibe competitions held by Department of Kannada and Culture. Recognising her talent, she was chosen by Bal Bhavan to participate in cultural events held at Hyderbad in 2005 and in Bangalore in 2007.
She was conferred with the title ‘Natya Sanmohini’ at the age of 19 years by Gurudeva academy of fine arts, Mandya.
As an artist, she has participated in various programmes like Chigurusanje, Pallovostava, Dasara Mahotsava, Aryabhatha Yuva Sangeetha Dance festival, Sai dance festival, Yuva dance festival, Yuva Sourabha conducted by Kannada and Culture Department. She is a B grade artiste of Doordarshan.
Along with Guru Dr. Vasundhara Doraswamy, she has participated in various festivals like Hampi Utsava, Bramostava conducted by ISCKON (Bangalore), Parva Utsava at Panji, Brahmakumari Utsava at Mt. Abu, Lokrang Utsav at Bhopal.
She has also learnt Sugama Sangeetha from H.R. Leelavathi initially and at present she is pursuing light music from Sunitha Chandrakumar. She has learnt classical music from Lakshmi.
As a singer, she has participated in ‘Confident Star Singer’ programme of Suvarna channel and has been a star singer for city doctors’ ‘Geeth Gaatha Chal’ programme for past several years.
Daughter of well-known pediatrician Dr. U.G. Shenoy and Mamatha Shenoy, she is teaching dance at SPARSHA Dance Academy, Saraswathipuram.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Friday – April 10th, 2015