Shobana Shankar
Despite not having trained professionally, Shobana is known for her versatility as a dancer and she ventured into teaching in 2009. She enjoys instructing all age groups, and especially loves teaching the special needs kids at Jeena, who have become a significant part of her life! She is passionate about coming up with creative ideas and watching these ideas materialize in class and in performance. It gives her great contentment to see her visions realized, all while ensuring that her students are having a blast!
Since Shobana discovered her passion for dance in her adult life, she has since plunged into the dance world wholeheartedly. Dancing, quite simply, makes her happy and allows her to use her imagination. Besides dancing for seemingly endless hours, she works full-time job at Cisco Systems as a Product Manager.
Outside of her work and dance life, she can be found relishing foods, cooking or hanging out with friends. She is also an aspirint actor; she has been a part of many theater groups and been cast in multiple lead roles, throughout the Bay Area and will soon be making her debut lead performance in a movie!
She also loves sports; she loves to play anything and everything! She was a state level athlete in India for Tamil Nadu (track and long jump), a state level volleyball player and a district level table tennis and chess player. She is always excited about the outdoors and adventure sports (the more extreme, the better!). She loves her husband who is her biggest support for everything she does (we'd like to think that their love blossomed in front of our very eyes as he also dances with the company!).