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Amali’s art of dancing

Amali Nisansala is one of the qualified young artistes in Sri Lanka. She is the only daughter of Sepala Perera and Padmakanthi of Kalutara.

Since 1990 when she was still in tender age, Amali displayed her talents as a dancer. In 2004 she was awarded ICCR Scholarship by Indian High Commission to study at Bathkande Music Institute, University of Lucknow, India.


Amali Nisansala

She completed the BPA Degree (Bachelor of Performing Arts) in Bharatha Natyam with a First Division. In 2007 she attained Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, for further education she was awarded the M.Mus Degree (Master of Music in Dance) in Bharatha Natyam by scoring the highest marks in her Dance Department at Faculty of Performing Arts in BHU.

Amali is a gifted and talented student. She studied the indicate forms of dancing such as Kandyan (Upcountry Dance) and Pahatharata (Low country Dance) forms of Sri Lankan and Bharatha Natyam, Katak and Manipuri forms of Indian Dancing.

She has great aptitude in learning various dances and presenting it perfectly. She was awarded the Visharad Degree in Bharatha Natyam (2001) Katak (2008) Manipuri (2008) with a first division, conducted by Bhathkande Sangeet Vidyapith Lucknow, India.

For the past 15 years she has been playing numerous key roles in most of the Dance Recitals and Dance Dramas in Sri Lanka and India. Along with her teachers Amali has performed at various cities such as Colombo, Kalutara, Gampaha, Kandy, Matara, Galle, Maharagama and Jaffna in Sri Lanka as well as Lucknow, Varanasi, Jhansi, Alahabad in India.

In all these performances she displayed her talents and capability as a versatile dancer so well that she enthralled her audience and kept them spell-bound.

She performed her Arangetram in Bharatha Natyam (Maiden Performance) in 2000, as the first Arangetram on the new millennium and Kala Eli Mangalya in Kandiyan Dancing (First Performance) in 2001. She is the first Sri Lankan schoolgirl to wear the Kandyan Dancer’s ves costume (headdress).

She toured Australia representing Sri Lanka winning acclamation of the critics.

Being a volunteer dancing teacher at the Sukhita Home for mentally handicapped children and physically disabled young girls, Amali has choreographed and directed dance recitals. They were performed by children of Sukita Home.

Her folk choreographies won the third award in 2008 and recently first award in 2009 in Spandan Inter Faculty Youth Festival Organized by Banaras Hindu University.

She played a leading role in her portrayal of Rani Lakshmi Bai in the dance drama Ranachandi was appreciated by one and all she was awarded second place for Bharatha Natyam in Inter University Competition at Lucknow and first place for Bharatha Natyam in Spandan, Inter Faculty Youth Festival at BHU Varanasi.

She is grateful to her teachers Nishadi Shantapriya, Miranda Hemalatha, smt. Lakshmi Sriwasthav, smt. Man Mohini Singh, smt. Kum Kum Dhar and Premchand Hombal for the guidance and leading her way to become a confident performer.

This young dancer’s main objective is to serve the nation through the art of dance to live in peace and harmony.

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