She is an accomplished Bharatanatyam dancer. She is renowned for her
fine dedication to the classical art form. She is known to possess an
exquisite understanding of the Abhinaya, a clarity of line and a strong
rhythmic command of the idiom. In 1994, Shobana founded Kalarpana, a
dance school in Chennai, with the objective of committing herself to
the propagation of the classical arts.