The Founder

Prakash Mohandas has had a penchant towards performing from a very early age. He is trained in dance, classical music and the drums. His first theatrical performance was in India at the age of 10 in the musical version of the 1968 movie 'Chitti Chitti Bang Bang'. At the age of 12 he extended his repertoire into another dance form by performing break dance for an AIDS awareness campaign. This was the start of numerous stage shows and performances in music, dance and musical theater. He was part of a prize-winning college dance team with a variety of dance styles in their repertoire, focussing on Bollywood as their primary style. After moving to the US to pursue his Masters degree, he began performing with a UT Austin dance group, Idli Vada Sambhar, an acapella group called HUM and an Indian music band called Omkara. In 2008 he founded Agni Dance and expanded it to Agni Performing Arts in 2011.

His vision is to train all ages in the various performing arts, predominantly of Asian Indian origin but not limited to a single region of the country. He aims to transform the conservative outlook of the South Asian community towards perorming arts and its career prospects.