Shanmuga Sundaram is a brilliant dancer, teacher and choreographer, and a disciple of Smt. K. J. Sarasa. He was trained initially in Malaysia, then moved to Chennai and became a devoted sishya, even taking care of his Guru during her long illness (for the past few years), until her death last Jan 2. He now runs her dance school as well as his own. He recently organized a much touted and very successful dance festival in Malaysia,  “Narthaka”, along with the highly reputed Odissi dancer Ramli Ibrahim. Shanmugam has performed at many prestigious dance festivals all over India and other countries around the world.