King of swing: This govt school boy, a truck driver’s son, dances his way to stardom

Coimbatore: With his vivacious and cavort dance performance, Y Sujith, 16, stole the show at the ‘Kala Utsav 2018’ held in the city on Tuesday.
A Class XII student of government higher secondary school at Karamadai, Sujith is not a professional dancer. Nor did he undergo any proper training.

As his father Yesudass is a truck driver, Sujit couldn’t afford to take proper training in a dance academy.

Inspired by a senior who danced with dexterity during a school function when he was in elementary school, Sujith learned dance movements from watching movies.

Five years ago, when he was in Class VII, Sujith started to train himself by watching dance programmes in TV shows and YouTube.

Today, Sujith has won medals in more than 20 district-level competitions. He has also performed in programmes, including marriage functions.

Competing with more than 100 students from various schools, Sujith won the first prize in solo dance category competition at the ‘Kala Utsav 2018’ by performing folk dance.

Sujith has been selected for the state-level competition to be held in Chennai.

Of the eight students selected to participate in the state-level competitions under various categories, Sujith is the only student from government school.

“All I need is a platform to showcase my dancing skills and feedback from the viewers, so that I can improve myself. Dancing makes me happy. This is what matters to me and I am least bothered about winning or losing a competition,” he said.

“I wanted to join in a dance academy. But, due to my family’s poor financial condition, I did not ask my parents to admit me in one,” said Sujith.

“The first dance that I choreographed on my own was when I was in Class VII for a school programme,” he said. “It gave me happiness when teachers and students appreciated my dancing style,” he added. He has mastered western and folk dance.

“It is my ambition to become a professional dancer. But my parents want me to get a degree and join in a job,” he said, expressing his hopes that they will eventually understand what dance actually means to him.

He said he is planning to do automobile engineering to make his parents happy but will never stop dancing.