Jeyasingh grew up studying the classical Indian dance form bharatanatyam. She came to the UK in 1981 and, in 1988, she launched her own company, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance. She holds an honorary MA from Surrey University and an honorary doctorate from De Montfort University, Leicester. [1] In 2000 she suffered from a paralysing auto-immume disorder, but was able to recover and continue choreographing in 2002