Nirosha Wijegunasekare

It is a pleasure to introduce Nirosha Wijegunasekare as an External Lecturer of our team. Anyone who relies on her doctrine would no doubt realize the true essence in the field of dancing. She was a great student of Guru Piyasara Shilpadhipathi, Guru Ravibhandu Vidhyapathi and Guru Asha Wickramasinghe. She is a proud lady to have many abilities as a bonus in the field of Choreography, Instructing and Lecturing in the field of dancing in Sri Lanka. A thoroughly carved product of the University of Visual and Performing Arts (UVPA), she has been attached to the UVPA as a lecturer since 2019. Nirosha is a dance scholar with expertise in traditional dance, oriental ballet, creative dance, and Bharatha Natyam. She has been crowned by many national awards in dance and has had extensive foreign exposure related to such aspects of dance. She functioned as the main dancer in state Dance Ensemble in Sri Lanka (2007-2015) and represented Sri Lanka in the “Asia Cultural road” in Korea as the Sri Lankan traditional dancer. Nirosha has successfully aced by conducting International Workshops in the field of Dance and is also attached to numerous international dance forums representing Sri Lanka. She has completed her post-graduate studies as MA in Dance at the University of Kelaniya in the year 2019 and she is about to get extensive knowledge in all the aspects and mechanisms of M.Phil degree at the University of Peradeniya. She is keen to develop her studies further in Choreography, Fitness and nutrition, and Modern dance.