Aparnaa Nagesh

Aparnaa Nagesh is a versatile dance professional with over 17 years of training, teaching and performance experience. She has trained extensively in various dance styles such as Jazz, Ballet, Contemporary, Latin & Street and now creates contemporary dance theatre work under her own unique movement vocabulary, titled Global Dance Fusion. She is a graduate of the ISVP dance course at Broadway Dance Center, New York with a certificate of excellence. Currently she runs her own all girl dance ensemble, High Kicks, who have performed at the prestigious Commonwealth Youth Dance Fest, prior to the start of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland in 2014. High Kicks is a platform for talented and enthusiastic female dancers to explore their potential as performers, teachers and choreographers. High Kicks also undertakes teaching workshops, movement arts programmes in schools and conceptualizes and executes various dance festivals, productions and dance arts project.


Aparnaa is the recipient of a prestigious TEDx Chennai Star Award, BREW Award for excellence in Dance and Ba’hai Rose of Ridvan Award. She was also an inspirational speaker/ performer at the TEDx Hindustan Event and the TEDx IIT events held in 2013, as well as the Global Youth Voice event held by AIESEC in 2015. She is also currently a mentor with the Vital Voices Mentoring Walk held in Chennai and was also an inspirational speaker/ performer at Indian Youth Conclave 2016.


Performance: White Noise
– performed by Lavanya Shankar, Ananya Shankar, Alisha Ajit, Varsha Ramesh, Dhwani Giri, Aanchal Anand, Shreya Kallingal and Aparnaa Nagesh.

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