Umeshi makes you imagine separate situations of how dance can make you think and rethink. She tells us of how she was diagnosed with a learning ability and how dance changed her way of studying. She draws in from her experience in the USA and Sri Lanka and how this experience can be pulled in together to create a revolution in how your child studies for any exam.
Umeshi Rajeendra is the founder and artistic director of Mesh Academy of Dance, Sri Lanka's first experimental and interdisciplinary dance school in partnership with US professors, choreographers and artists which launched this July. Her works focus on interdisciplinary and experimental projects that captures the pure beauty of the similarities and differences in people and places, in order to not only appreciate the diversity of the world, but to also comprehend the collective nature of humanity and its many intricate forms through space, weight, time and flow. She has had the pleasure of performing and working with artists such as former Shen Wei dancer Jesse Zaritt, US based Erin Law, South African dance queen Dada Masilo, etc. A passionate educator, Umeshi has taught classes in the U.S. and Sri Lanka following her degree in dance and economics with a political science focus. Her unique and dynamic style fuses elements of contemporary dance, contemporary ballet, post-modern, african
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