Dance gives me peace

Dance is the medium of worship for me. When I dance on the devotional songs and holy chantings, I understand the meaning of it completely and dance with complete concentration.

Dance is a powerful medium of prayer and I lose myself when I am dancing. It connects me to God.

When I am dancing, I don’t think of anything else. In most of our performances, the lyrics are about favourite pastimes of God and hence dancing in admiration of God is also a kind of worship. Dance gives me peace.

In life, we should have faith in something. Apart from worshipping the Almighty through dance, I also pray to God in every day.
Being a dancer, my favourite God is Lord Shiva. But apart from the conventional form of worship, it is Kuchipudi dance that gives me greater meaning of spirituality.

(As told to Prashanth Bhat)

— Yamini Reddy is a popular Kuchipudi dancer