Patruni Chidananda Sastry

Patruni Chidananda Sastry is a Gender Fluid Indian expressionist dancer, India's First Tranimal Drag performer and Orator, born on 25th December from Kharagpur  of West Bengal and presently lives in Hyderabad. Patruni Sastry has performed more than 200 dance and drag shows across the India, as well conducted Workshops. Patruni is known for his dance style “Indian expressionism” and performs drag with the name Suffocated Art Specimen.

Early Life
Patruni had created his owns styles like Sufiyattam and Pseudo Natyam. They uses dance to talk about tabooed subject such as LGBTQIA issues, sexual education and gender equality. They identifies themself as gender fluid. Patruni learnt Classical dance form Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi and Odissi. Initially started performing as a traditional artist and slowly moved to contemporary art.

Patruni also went through training of Butoh under Adam Koan. They created his unique renditions of Butoh called as Butohnatyam. Patruni has given TEDx Talks and actively voiced out his activism for LGBTQIA and transgender rights. .Patruni carries a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Bankura Unnayani institute of technology and an MBA from Jaipur National University. they also holds a Diploma in Bharatanatyam.