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After graduating Barnard College she moved to California, and continued studying Bharata Natyam with Katherine Kunhiraman of Berkeley, and spent a year studying Bharata Natyam on a government scholarship in Madras/Chennai with V.P. Dhananjayan. Jatila came to Santa Barbara in 1999 and met Alexandra King, and fell in love with the wide variety of Middle Eastern Dance styles through Alexandra and the UCSB Middle East Ensemble.
Besides her classical and folkloric training, Jatila has been folk dancing since she was 8. She performs Bulgarian and Macedonian dance with Nova Zdravitsa, Santa Barbara's Balkan Performing Ensemble. Tamil World said of her, "She was born to dance. Her feet are meant for rhythm (thala) and her face for expression (bhava)." |
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