Soo Mei Fei

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In Secondary 1, Soo Mei Fei and her classmates saw a poster outside their National Junior College classroom which advertised: 'Indian dance try-out.'... To their disappointment, it was in fact Indian classical dance. But Soo persisted. Last Tuesday (Jan 26), the 23-year-old made history as the first Singaporean Chinese woman to perform a full-fledged arangetram, a debut recital of Indian classical dance bharatanatyam, on stage... Soo, who joined Apsaras in 2015, has been training under Mr Mohanapriyan for the past four years. She was taught the basics by Mrs Vijaya Nadesan, the academy's principal, and the late Ms Neila Sathyalingam, one of its founders... Soo, who did a degree in arts at Lasalle College of the Arts, has been part of large Apsaras productions like Anjaneyam in 2017, but it is as a solo artiste that she wants to shine... Soo, who is working as a teacher at a children's enrichment centre, practises bharatanatyam for at least 11 hours over four days every week.

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