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foreign

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and I came to Canada as an international

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students maybe six years back

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I started getting trained as a dancer

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when I was three years old I was

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enrolled into bharatnatyam class so

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bharan item is basically a typically

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Indian classical dance style where where

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the dancer does not only learn dance but

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self-discipline so back then when I was

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into college I decided that dancing is

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something that I’m not leaving ever like

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it’s going to get strict to me as long

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as I’m alive I have been extensively

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involved in different various sort of

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folk dances I have also performed into

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Anatolian folk dance event that took

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place in Turkey where we represented

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India so I think folk dance is something

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that makes me feel rooted to the culture

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that I come from if you are an Indian

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dancer especially if you belong to the

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traditional dancers like classical

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bharanatyam or folk dances there are

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there are a lot of diversities like

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every region will have their signature

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dance style and I believe that there are

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a lot of things to discover everything

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is attached to our history or it has a

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story behind it so I feel like there are

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a lot of things that I can learn like

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there are tons of varieties that this

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dance form has to offer and in terms of

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costumes and musics everything is so

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rich in its own culture

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foreign

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families uh girls usually don’t dance

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like a dancing girl is not considered to

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be belonging to a good family so I was

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lucky enough that my parents in fact my

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grandparents they were like super

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supportive they were so proud of me

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winning my competitions working hard to

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prepare for a competition but that

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wasn’t the case from everyone so the

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kind of appreciation that a person

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should achieve in terms of coming up

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there’s uh stage fears or in terms of

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just go there on stage and perform or

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winning a trophy that wasn’t similar for

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girls and boys so that was on the very

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early stage I have realized that

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everyone is not going to appreciate what

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I am going to do but that’s okay as long

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as my parents my family is understanding

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me they’re supportive I will just keep

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going and once like when I decided to

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pursue dance as my career I never get I

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never really gave a thought to pursue it

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on full-time basis because there was lot

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of stigma that pursuing passion can be

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very harmful and I think at some up to

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some extent I definitely agree to that

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part but then if you’re really

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passionate and you’re really good at

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what you do you put in all your hard

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work I don’t think there is anything

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that you cannot pursue as full time

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uh well Bollywood monster mashup means a

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lot to me as an artist it was the very

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first Festival which made us realize

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that artists artists are really valuable

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they they not only value artists they

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make them feel respected and I have I

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have been performing into a lot a lot

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lots of festivals lately but what I what

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I have realized is that other festivals

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might treat you as they are giving you

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an opportunity by providing you a

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platform whereas here with this

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particular Festival what I have felt is

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they are they feel privileged to have us

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on board which is why I will always feel

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grateful to be a part of this Festival

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foreign

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