Shanny was born in Penang, Malaysia. She is a dance scholar and practitioner, trained in classical ballet, modern dance and taichi. Her latest fieldwork was on an ancient sacred dance practised by Tibetan Buddhist monks in exile, the research of which was published in Recherches en Danse. She is passionate regarding the recognition of the value of, and urgency in, preserving dance for posterity as a way of keeping the dialogue alive between the past, present and future.
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