Priyakshi Agarwal’s dance

AT age 16, Priyakshi Agarwal’s passion for dance led her on a solo trek — leaving home in the village of Banera in the south-east of Rajasthan, India, to pursue her passion.

Nowadays, the woman, the “Feminist killjoy”, sees her ultimate goal in life to give back to society, using her gift as a dance artist. She has been engaged in many social projects that include teaching dance to disenfranchised children, and performing for orphanages and old age homes.

Agarwal, who is trained in the Indian classical dance Bharatanatyam and Kalaripayattu, a form of martial arts, and also practices Chenda (percussion from Kerala), Aerial, Theatre, Chhau, Ghoomar, Terah Taali, Garba and several other folk dance forms of India, is pursuing her research paper in dancehall, and looking at similarities between Indian dance forms and the Jamaican dancehall and its empowerment for women throughout Jamaica and the diasporas.

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