Teriya Magar-Dance

Teriya Fouja Magar is an 11-year-old competitive dancer from Rudrapur, Rupandehi district, Nepal. Magar came into the public spotlight during her performances at Zee TV's Dance India Dance Li'l Masters competition, which she eventually won on 21 June 2014Teriya is currently a grade-5 student at a school in Rudrapur.On 29 June 2014, Magar has been honourned with the title “Lumbini child peace ambassador” by the Kapilvastu Day Campaign.The award was presented by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Development, Prakash Man Singh.Teriya in Magar language means "obedient" and her grand father picked up this beautiful name for his adoreable grand daughter. Teriya started to dance when she was two and a half years' old, says Anita Chhetri Magar, mother of 11 years old, Teriya Phauja Magar, one of the four finalists of DID Li'l cham season 3. teriya magarIt is hard to believe, but it is true whenever any song tuned in radio/TV, Teria started to shake her body spontaneously, says Anita. When she grew up in her village, Haraiya, Rudrapur VDC-6, Rupandehi district, she didn't have any opportunities to showcase her talency except few occasional stage programs and deusi-bhailo, which comes once a year to celebrate one of the biggest festival of Tihar. Anita further says, it was hard to receive warm welcome from any house owners for any deusi/bhailo group in the village without Teriya. Besides her outstanding dancing skill, she is brilliant in her studies too. During my conversation with Anita, she unfolds the interesting story of dancing talent of Teriya's father and herself, which brought them together and married. It sounds like Teriya inherited the talency from her parents too.