Colleena shakti biography for kids

Jaipur

This is the story of Colleena Shakti, a girl brought up in the US who made India her home, learnt Odissi classical dance here and started running a school in an ancient 300-year-old Pushkar temple in India which has been teaching dance mudras to thousands of students around the world.

The story of this dance school continues even with the school remaining closed due to the pandemic.

However, Colleena is running online classes, presently being based in Greece and connecting the classical dance with the world with her strong dedication.

Colleena is now a world-renowned Indian dancer and her Shakti School of Dance in Purana Rangnath Venugopal Temple in Pushkar, Rajasthan, is a known name across the world.

She is acting as a bridge these days, transcending the stories of Indian art, dance and music to students all across the world via online medium as the school is closed since March last year owing to the pandemic.

Speaking to media, Colleena said, "In 2001