Poornima celebrated her 25 years of dancing 
The Dhananjayans felicitated Poornima Ashok for completing 25 years of dedicated career in Bharatnaatyam and complimented her for achievements and excellence in performance. Endowed with all required qualities for a Bharatanaatyam artiste, Poornima stands a testimony to total dedication.  Kudos to Poornima for her endeavour to harnessing the best of Bangalore artistes like Kiran & Sandhya (The Kirans) and Praveen to take part in her silver jubilee year and those artistes paying dancing tributes to their contemporary.
 
    Poornima, a renowned bharatanatyam dancer of Bangalore, founder of Nrityanjali School of Bharatanatyam, disciple of the Dhananjayans 
    celebrated her 25 years of dancing on the 31st of May 2009 at the J.S.S auditirium, Bangalore. 

    On this occassion, her gurus Padmabhushan The Dhananjayans graced the occassion. 

    The revered gurus were felicitated by Sreenivasan, DG, IGP (retd ) and Justice. N Kumar. Radha Sridhar inaugurated the dance festival. 

    The performances of the evening 
    'SOLO RECITAL BY POORNIMA, THE KIRANS, duet by Praveen Soundarya. 
    Two group presentations by the upcoming disciples of Praveen and Poornima was a treat tro watch. 
    The finale composed and choreographed for the occassion called 'BRAHMAARPANA', performed by all the above mentioned artists was a delight to watch. 

    - Sharada