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1. DilSagar
  Dil Sagar has several years of Kalari training and has won the Indian national championship in it 5 times. An accomplished contemporary dancer, he has trained both at the Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts in Bangalore as well as in London. He has performed throughout India, UK and Portugal and featured in several productions with Attakkalari. He has also worked with Imlata Dance Company (UK).
   
2. Deepak K.S
  Deepak comes into contemporary dance through the cinematic movement style which is very popular in India. He is now a senior dancer with Attakkalari. He has had a thorough exposure to Capoeira, Ballet and Body Conditioning and select training in Bharatanatyam, Kalaripayettu, Chaau, Yoga and other Indian physical traditions. He has been a theatre performer and has benefited from light and choreography workshops conducted by international facilitators at Attakkalari.
   
3. Mirra
  Mirra is an agile and sinuous dancer with a flexible body moulded by the traditional art of Yoga. She is furthering her training in Contemporary dance and choreography. Her most recent short piece, choreographed by herself and Veena, called Sakhi (“Friend”) has been very well received in Bangalore.
   
4. Hema Bharathy
  Hema Bharathy is a dancer who has been trained in the classical dance forms of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi from Sunanda Devi and Vyjayanthi for 10 years. She did her Ranga Pravesham public initiation in 2000 and is an experienced performer at several prestigious festivals all over India. Hema is at present training in Contemporary dance with Attakkalari.
   
5. Rohini
  Rohini has completed her Masters in Bharatanatyam from Bangalore University. Presently, she continues to train in Contemporary dance and Kalari.
   
6. Rakesh M.P.S
  Has trained in martial arts, cinematic dance and contemporary dance. He was a member of a popular dance troupe in Calicut which performed all over Kerala between 2000 and 2003 before joining Attakkalari to train in contemporary dance. Apart from performing, Rakesh is also an accomplished teacher of school children in the basics of contemporary dance.
   
7. Satyajit Ravindranath
  Satyajit learned Bharatanatyam in the Kalakshetra style from his mother and he has a well developed background in light classical music. His initiation into dance has been through cinematic dance. He has performed all over Kerala in this medium as part of Kala Bhavan (Cochin) and Srishti (Cochin) in 2002-2004 before joined Attakkalari to train as a contemporary dancer.
   
8. Leji Paul
  Leji is trained in the classical tradition in Kerala where she learned Bharatanatyam and Kuchupudi from Inaz and Mohiniattam from Kalamandalam Geeta. She has also had some exposure to folk dance before she was selected for her movement language to join Attakkalari as a junior dancer for training in contemporary dance.
   
9. Shobhitha Yeluri
  Shobhitha has a movement language which draws from her extensive training in gymnastics and athletics accompanied by ballet, kathak and bharatanatyam followed by 4 years at the Freeman School of dance. She received her training in Kalari and contemporary dance at Attakkalari.
   
10. Hema Sundari
  Hema has trained in Bharatanatyam for 5 years and in Kuchupudi under Vyjyanthi Kasi for 8 years before she passed the Junior examination in both forms under the Karnataka Board. She has participated in many dance festivals all over India and was selected in an audition to join Attakkalari for training in contemporary dance.
   
11. Sowmya Jaganmurthy
  Sowmya danced with Bangalore based “Shiva’s” in the freestyle genre in 2003. She has acted in productions by the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA). She is now receiving training in Kalari and contemporary at Attakkalari. She is also training in Vocal Karnatik Music.
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