Vrudhi Shah

A trained Bharatnatyam dancer, Vrudhi is one of the founding members of the Sanskriti Arts Ensemble.  Currently in her final year of undergraduate studies at York University, she is studying medicine to be a doctor.

Training in dance: Vrudhi began dancing when she was only 5 years old and trained as a Bharatnatyam disciple of Sujatha Chandramohanam. Vrudhi began training with Puja Amin in 2003 and has learned Kathak, Bhangra, Garba-Raas, Rajasthani and many other forms of Indian folk dance. Apart from Indian dances, Vrudhi is fluent in free style, jazz, ballet, modern dance and swing.

Accomplishments: Vrudhi has won many competitions within Canada and around the world. At the tender age of 5, she left audiences awe-struck with her cobra dance, going on to place 1st runner up over 52 other contestants. At age 12, Vrudhi gained the title of “Ms. McDonalds” in Muscat, defeating 95 other contestants. Her most recent achievement was her role as dance coordinator for York University's multicultural week's Bharatiya at York. Bharatiya at York emerged victorious among all of the participants.