I was never really enthusiastic about becoming an engineer. I studied engineering only to
please my parents, my father in particular. After I got my degree, I closed my books and hoped
never to read an engineering book again in my whole life. When I went to Australia, I was
introduced to classical ballet and was spending more time with one dance performance or another,
than on my ___1___ , so much so that when people asked, I used to tell them that my full-time
work was ___2___ while my hobby was engineering. But thank goodness, I managed to pass my
___3___ . I had to because I was a scholarship student and had to finish my degree course.
As to my first love, I'd really always been dancing for as long as I can remember. I used to dance
___4___ , so much so that it quickly became a part of me. I was born to dance!
As to how I got into dancing professionally, it was after a performance at the university.
Normally ___5___ , a director of one dance company or another will look for new talent. I was
first recruited by the Western Australia Ballet Company, before ___6___ the Australian Ballet
School and later to the Sydney Dance Company.
After graduating, I worked with the dance companies for about three years, before 7
Malaysia last year. Actually, I did not take up Indian classical dancing at first. When I started it was
with Malay classical dancing. In picking up more techniques, I went through the usual process of
___8___ the different types of dances - jazz, modern and classical ballet. Then I
___9___ a
dancer, Chandrabanu, an Indian classical dancer from Malaysia, who was performing in Australia
then. He inspired me to return to the Eastern tradition, and so I ___10___ Indian classical
dancing. |