Suhaee Abro (, ) is a Pakistani dancer and actress. She specialises in the field of dance and is a trained classical dancer. Suhaee works in television plays, theatre, documentaries and music videos. She won the Best New Television Sensation Award (Female) at the

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2013. She is the daughter of Sindhi poet and activist Attiya Dawood.

Early life

Suhaee Abro was born and raised in

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, Pakistan. Her mother (Attiya Dawood) is a well-known poet. Her father (Khuda Bux Abro), a visual artist, introduced her to many different kinds of world music. Abro began her training in classical dance at the age of seven from classical dancer

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, and performed in her first music video at the age of eight. She began appearing in telefilms when she was twelve. In 2010, after an injury that required surgery to her tailbone, Abro's doctor warned her not to dance. Because she had promised to perform a dance at her school, however, Abro performed sitting on the edge of the stage, just moving her hands and face, earning applause from the audience. Abro was diagnosed with

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in her late teens.

Career as a dancer

Having already performed in many music videos, Abro gave her first public solo performance in 2011, at Karachi's T2F, at an evening of some of her mother's poetry. Abro specialises in ''

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'', and has also learnt ''

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'' and ''

Odissi ''Odissi'' (''ଓଡ଼ିଶୀ'') also referred to as ''Orissi'' in old literature, oldest surviving classical dance of India, is a major ancient Indian classical dance that originated in the Hindu temple, temples of Odisha – an eastern ...

'', three of eight forms of

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and also choreographs and performs Sufi, folk, modern/contemporary as well other genres of classical dance. Abro is also one of the founders and Dance Director/Performing Artist of the group Nritaal

Dances and choreography

Filmography

Theatre

Music videos

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Abro, Suhaee Living people Pakistani television actresses Actresses from Karachi Pakistani female dancers Pakistani dancers Pakistani music educators Pakistani women music educators Bharatanatyam exponents Contemporary dancers 21st-century Pakistani actresses Pakistani stage actresses People with epilepsy Sindhi people Year of birth missing (living people)