Of all the numerous splendorous facets, it is the expressive ways of the dance forms that most truly reflect India’s hoary tradition. Indian culture is diverse and so are the content and style of Indian classical dances.
A continual and unabated interest for the Indian Classical dances through the ages has immensely helped to evolve new structures and thus even the dances outside the traditional milieu do not deviate from the time-honored tradition.
Ancient themes are re-presented in a new format using updated technique and innovative themes are infused into the old style of performing. This approach has endowed a whole lot of new definition to the beauty, grace and poise of the Indian Classical Dance.

Fusion of an Indian classical dance form with modern day sport can be lot more exciting than merely adding a few exotic dimensions. This was amply borne out by the exhilarating show of Bharathanatyam on Skates by Aadithya Prem, freshman from Gwinnet School of Maths Science and Technology.
Skating with remarkable precision and dancing with bewitching elegance, Aadithya creates the marvelous visual impact to keep his audience stupefied. His wizardry underlines the fact he has in him all requisite make up to become a performer par excellence.
Aadithya was initiated into Roller Skating at the tender age of four, under the watchful eyes of Mr Saji an Indian International Skater and coach. Sensing his natural flair to excel in skating, Mr Saji guided him to the more aesthetic forms of Artistic Skating.

The success was instant and this spurred Aadithya to forge ahead and win the first of his eight State Championship Gold. Aadithya decided to concentrate more on artistic skating to become a noticeable performer in the National Roller Skating Championships and towards this end, he was guided by Mr N Sulaiman, another noted Indian International Skater. After the Kolkata Nationals, Aadithya decided to move to advanced Artistic Skating/ Indian Classical Dance on Skates, which is the most glamorous and yet the toughest event in the Nationals.
Aadithya received his Bharathnatyam lessons from Smt T.B. Chitra, a versatile dancer graduated from Kalakshetra Chennai, the distinguished school of Bharathanatyam started by Smt Rukmini Arundale.

He also received technical guidance to excel in artistic skating from Mr Pavan Kumar Akula, a nationally ranked coach from Andra Pradesh. He continued to hone his skills with the help of his coach N Sulaiman.

Steadfastly devoted to Bharathanatyam, Aadithya won the district, regional and state medals in his debut performance in the CBSE State Youth Festival in 2007-08. He won the gold in Artistic Skating / Indian Classical Dance on skates on his first appearance in the event - apart from winning a record 8th consecutive gold in Artistic Free Style. In February 2008, Aadithya won the National Gold in Artistic Skating/ Indian Classical Dance on Skates, again participating in that event for the first time.

He moved to US after winning the Nationals in 2008, and became busy soon thereafter. He did his first performance in US at the annual festival of Hindu Temple at Kentucky. Following this, he performed on various stages including the prestigious World Fest of Louisville in Kentucky, Festival of Lights in Atlanta, Cultures Across the Border in Atlanta etc. He won the Kentucky State PTA Reflections award of excellence in dance choreography in 2009 and again won the Georgia State PTA Reflections Dance Choreography award 2010.

Some of the awards he won in India are ‘Kid of the Year 2005’, Individual Speed Skating Championship in State Championship in State CBSE School Meet, Gold Medal in State CBSE School Youth Festival for Folk Dance, Gold Medal in Martial Arts in the State Martial Arts Festival 2007-08. Lest one forgets, he is also the regional winner of McMillan Scholarship for excellence in Science.

Aadithya is also into modeling and TV anchoring. He is the brand ambassador for Triphala Brahmi – an Ayurveda product. He has done modeling for Dhatri WinSmart, Malayala Manorama Scholorship programs, Vanitha and Net Point computers. He was the anchor for the popular Kids program ‘Butterflies’ in Kairali People TV and Dance related program ‘Dance Dance’ in Jeevan TV.

Currently, Aadithya is studying in the 9th grade in the Gwinnett School of Maths Science and Technology. He is assisting Smt Mehak of Mehak Dance Academy in Bharathnatyam and Bollywood dancing. He is also associated with Smt Kumudh Sawla of Nrithya Natya Kala Bharathi Atlanta.