Shankar Kandasamy is an established BharataNatyam dancer in Malaysia. He heads the BharataNatyam faculty and Artistic Director of The Temple of Fine Arts Malaysia. He has given many Bharata Natyam recitals both locally and internationally and travelled with the Temple of Fine Arts worldwide performing dance dramas and variety programmes.He is also trained in Odissi,Western Classical Ballet and other regional classical styles of India.This gives him a rich vocabulary of dance which he uses in choreography. Shankar has been one of the key choreographers in all major Dance Drama productions of the Temple of Fine Arts.He had received the prestigious Arya Bhatta Award and various other prestigious awards around the Globe.