Vedantam Venkata Suryanarayana

Hailing from the traditional Kuchipudi family, Sri Vedantam Venkata Suryanarayana was born to Vedantam Malika Arjuna Sarma and Seetharama Lakshmi in Kuchipudi.

He started learning Kuchipudi from his first Guru Pasumarthy Venugopala Sarma at the tender age of five. He was later trained by famous Guru Vedantam Rathaiah Sarma and by Vempati Chinna Satyam in Chennai.

He has a Certificate Course in Kuchipudi from Potti Sreeramulu University. He has performed in many programs in India, particularly in Tamil nadu, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, etc.,

He is versatile performer in the sense that he has enacted wide variety of roles as Brahma, Vishnu, Rakshasa, Rishi, etc., in various Kuchipudi Yakshaganas like Bhakta Prahalad, Parvathi Parinayam, etc.,

He has choreographed new compositions in Annamachary Keerthanas and Ashta vidha nayakas and shows keen interest in dance direction.