International Fitness Fashion Magazine Sept/Oct 2020

Arundhati Banerjee is a resident of Adelaide-Australia, a member of the Royal Court of 2019, who has recently won the coveted title “Miss Teen Diamond Australia 2019”, Miss Glamourgenic-Supreme Talent 2018, and Talent Queen Award in the Miss Diamond Australia 2019- Grand Finals; a nationally acclaimed pageant that focuses on diversity and building community heroes, and winning seven subtitles in the pageant apart from the overall title. She is the first South Australian Indian teen to win the coveted title even though she is a high school student and has achieved several accolades at the young age of 16. As part of her pageantry journey, she has raised AUD $3852 for her charity organization e.motion 21 which supports young adults and children with down syndrome.

Arundhati Banerjee is an "Arttrepreneur " and is a founding member of the Dance Academy called AIDA Bharatanatyaved which is based in Adelaide, South Australia. She has performed in various international and national festivals in Australia such as Oz Asia Festival, International Indian film Festival-Melbourne, International

Folkloric Festival, Governor's HouseTasmania, Adelaide Oval and many more

She successfully launched her debut production in one of the Southern Hemispheres most sort out festival the Fringe 2019. Her production was titled Dancing Sutra where the Story of EVE was depicted through an Indian contemporary classical dance ballet with a dance troupe of 20 artists of different cultural backgrounds. The proceeds of the show were contributed to her chosen charity e.motion 21. She has been felicitated by Seven News Young Achiever Award under the Rowdy GroupCreativity Achievement Category in the year 2019 for her contribution to performing arts.

Arundhati is a proud member of the International Dance Council - partnered with UNESCO, where she was a student of Padmashree (the fourth highest civil-

ian award) and National Award-winning actress and Bharatanatyam dancer; Shobana Chandrakumar Pillai. Currently, she is a student of Natya Shantala Kadambini learning the expression and dramaturgy under Sanskrit Scholar Arjun Bharadwaj, at the same time learning western forms of dance through Australian Dance Theatre and Australian Company of Performing Arts. She also has won overall first place in the KAR dance competition and was invited to Hollywood to perform. She has been featured by several leading magazines and interviewed on the “Artist and Me” Series; ME-TV.

Miss Banerjee believes she has been able to achieve her desires through a fitness pathway when the mind, body, and soul are integrated in her rigorous practice of the age-old phrase “Sound Mind in a Sound Body.”

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