Bharatanatyam dancer Apoorva Jayaraman may call herself a student.While she is a student of eminent dancer Priyadarsini Govind and trained under Ratna Supriya Sridharan and Padmini Ravi in Bangalore, she is far more than a student. She has a kind of maturity and confidence that goes beyond skill to a deep engagement with the art. She has a good sense of rhythm, her abhinaya is natural and her style is sprightly, and put together, she epitomises the joy of dance.