Biography

Sadhya Dance Academy is a professional dance academy based out of the capital city of India, New Delhi. The academy is synonymous with excellence. It propagates itself as an entity with a vision to make dance reachable and accessible to everyone, regardless of age. It shares its expertise of working in the field of dance for more than 18 years and now offers multi-style dance classes by its company artists and guest faculty at its new studio in Gurgaon. Under the artistic vision of its director, Santosh Nair, the academy is known for spreading art and changing lives. Santosh Nair's journey as a dancer began under the blessings of his father, Shri Kalamandalam Padmanabhan, in 1986, as a Kathakali dancer. He furthered his training at Kathakali Centre under the expert guidance of Shri Sadanam Balakrishnan. The strong urge to explore, feel and create, led him to learn modern dance with Shri Narendra Sharmaji of Bhoomika Creative Dance Centre for the next five years, performing and choreographing dance pieces in a most innovative and heart touching manner. The desire to incorporate varied and energetic movements into his dance style saw him learning the traditional dance of Orissa, Mayurbhanj Chhau under Guru Janmey Joy Sai Babu from 1995-2000. Trained both as a traditional and contemporary dancer, Santosh has proved his excellence in the field of dance and choreography by creating a unique style of his own.