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Sudha Devulapalli began her training in Bharatanatyam and Kathak in Jamshedpur, Bihar during her school years and completed her Arangetram under Smt. Sumati Kaushal. During her stay in Madras, she was also fortunate to receive further tutoring from Padmashri Kalaimani Adayar K. Lakshman. Since 1987 Sudha has been receiving advanced training in dance technique, teaching methodology and choreography under Dr. K.Uma Rama Rao of Hyderabad.

She has received diplomas in both fields of dance from Prayag University in Allahabad. Though she is academically qualified in Education and Computer Science, she has chosen to pursue a career in teaching Indian classical dance. Sudha performed in India and abroad before settling down to teaching in New Jersey since 1989. She has had the opportunity to choreograph several beautiful dance dramas such as “Padmavathi Kalyanam” for TANA, “Meera Ke Giridhar” ,“Four Seasons” ,“Shyam Sudha Ras” ,“Bharat Kal Aaj aur Kal” , “Rati Vilapam” and an opening welcome dance for TANA and RAMAYANA in Bridgewater temple. Sudha has started a Dance school called “Kalanjali school of Dance “and has more than one hundred and