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Every weekend I felt like I was a little like mini road show

where my parents would come with me and I'd have my costume and my cassette

and I'd have to like walk in and make sure like the music played all right.

That's Pile Kadakia. She's been on stage since she was three years old.

My earliest memories would be waking up on Saturday morning and going to one of my friends basements and

we would dance together with a group of 10 girls and learn Indian folk dances

which really connected me to my culture it connected me to my

me to my ancestors.

Her talent for what we now call

Bollywood style dance was a combination of technical skills

with empathy.

Indian dance has a lot of skills associated with it from just like regular

technical skills, but it also has this beautiful expression associated with it too,

which taught me like, wow, like you can actually help someone feel something when you

express yourself.

Dance gave pile a form of expression, but what she cared about most had less to do with what

she expressed and more to do with how the audience

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