Deepavali keeps dance teacher busy


(for deepavali cover use) Dance teachers and their students strike a pose around the kuthu vilaku (brass lamps) at Temple of Fine Art in Babington Avenue, Penang. Pic by: ZHAFARAN NASIB/The Star/ 14 October 2017

GEORGE TOWN: Work has kept dance teacher K. Jeyalakshmy from going home to Pondicherry, India, for Deepavali for the past eight years.

“I usually go back to India several times a year, but never during Deepavali because we always have dance performances at this time,” said the 34-year-old, who teaches classical and modern dance at the Temple of Fine Arts (TFA) here.

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