By IANS,
Dhaka : A scholarship from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and training at the Rabindra Bharati University in Kolkata has made Bangladeshi classical dancer Arpita Shome resolve that she will pass on the art to others.
“When I returned to Bangladesh from Kolkata in September, 2008 I came back as a different person. Now I have a responsibility to pass on what I had learned. That sense of duty is absorbed within me, and maybe will always be.
“Perhaps it is the reason why I will never give up teaching classical dance,” Arpita told The Daily Star newspaper.
Arpita began dancing as a six-year-old child in her hometown, Rajbari.
“It still feels funny and strange to think about it – how I lived without my mother for five years, mostly on my own, in a flat in Kolkata,” said Arpita.
“Perhaps this acceptance of the change of times and the determination to learn classical dance made it possible to do so.”
Arpita is one of the youngest and promising classical dancers of contemporary times, the newspaper said.