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Shalini Shivashankar started her training in Bharatanatyam in her early years with late Guru Smt Padmini Ramachandran. She further trained under the tutelage of Smt. Shyamala Surendran and Smt. Radhika Shurajit, - both senior disciples of the world renowned Natyacharyas, The Dhanajayans. Simultaneously, Shalini trained in Mohiniattam under various Gurus, commencing briefly with Kalamandalam Sarawathi (Calicut) and then delving deeper into the art form with Smt. Sreedevi Rajan - the daughter of the doyen, late Kalamandalam Kalyanikuttyamma. Shalini has performed both forms of Natya widely in India and in a few other countries such as the Middle East, Canada, Latvia and UK. She taught young students for several years in India and Bahrain until she moved to the UK in 2002. Here in the UK, Shalini founded Upahaar School of Dance in Croydon in 2003 with a few students. In 2019, Shalini was awarded Milapfest's Nritya Acharya Ratna - distinguished teacher in dance, for her outstanding contribution to teaching dance.
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