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. |