Patruni Chidananda Sastry is a Classical Dancer, Intrapreneur and Customer Service Expert . Patruni started dancing since the age of 7. Patruni Sastry unique style called "Expressionism" is a new way to tell stories of awareness to the society .Patruni Sastry contributes his attribute of dance with many organization like Mist ,Namma Pride , Human Library and the Humsafar trust . He has also been part of many dance festivals including Golden Beach Festival, Kalpashree dance festival and so on .Patruni also used his skill to bring in visualization to complex numerical and conceptual subject and processed a new way to represent data. Patruni also created a new style of poetry reciting and story telling. Patruni has worked on a unique style of dance called the "Expressionism “where he believes to radiate social awareness through dace.
Patruni Chidananda Sastry believe in channeling his dancing urges in order to produce unique footsteps. Sastry’s inspiration for his work is the miracle of life and interest to learn more. Working as an Analyst in Deloitte Hyderabad, makes him relate business with dance. He is a Classical dancer who love to perform in boardrooms and business meetings, which allows his perspective as an artist to remain contemporary yet traditional. Dance is how he battle against the complexity of numbers and offer new ways to visualize the data to clients. Patruni Sastry started learning Bharatanatyam from prominent gurus Sri Kalamandalam Ventak in Kolkata and Sri Hari Mangalampalli from Hyderabad. He also learned Oddisi from Swayam pragyan shahoo and Preeti Mohapatra . He learnt Kuchipudi from Sri Siva Kumar .Sastry carries a balanced Professional career as a customer service expert and trainer in Deloitte
Some of his known productions are
Pancha Pandhakas (Untold Queer characters of Indian Mythology)
La Nari (why women to suffer)
Wild Cry (Advance act on animal abuse)
Aratrika (Indulging with Alcohol Addiction )
The closet (A dance act on Gender fluidity )
La Sya (the journey of gender fluidity)
This is what Hindustan times would like to say about Patruni Sastry Patruni’ s “Sastry Gender bending Bharatanatyam Recital was an anecdote to address critical awareness on LGBTQIA “ and followed by The ladies compartment” With more artists like Sastry, making themselves seen and heard, however, the slowly changing face of classical Indian dance can certainly revive its (former) glory of being an non-gendered, non-sexualized and inclusive form of self-expression — perhaps even a few shades better. ”
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Patruni Sastry has been performing in many national and international dance festivals. Some of them includes and time and then keep involving in many social outreaches such as TEDx IBA speaker. In his TEDx talk at Indus business academy Bangalore he delivered a talk that has all the thought provoking, storytelling components TEDx audiences’ love. Titled “from dance to data”. In it, he outline what it means when help is not a choice but a compulsion.
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The takeaways the audience to walked with were technicalities how classical dance can be used as a data visualization technique ,why we need to focus more dancing skills for outsourcing business and encourage our youth into this field ,how can dance give a better customer service , creative thinking and team bonding skills.
Apart from that he has also been a Book at Human Library Hyderabad and Human Library Bangalore, became an Artist of collaboration with Namma Pride and Mental Health foundation, Spoke at Pecha Kucha, Volunteered for Peta and so on and so forth.
You can contact him at Email: pcsastrys5@gmail.com
Phone number: 8179498469, 08309837422
Facebook Page: Sas3 Dancing feet