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  2. Yamini Krishnamurthy - Wikipedia

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    Mungara Yamini Krishnamurthy (20 December 1940 – 3 August 2024) was an Indian classical dancer recognized for her contributions to Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi. She was a recipient of the Padma Shri (1968), Padma Bhushan (2001), Padma Vibhushan (2016) and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1977).

  3. Rukmini Devi Arundale - Wikipedia

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    Rukmini Devi Arundale (née Sastri; 29 February 1904 – 24 February 1986) [1] was an Indian theosophist, dancer and choreographer of the Indian classical dance form of Bharatanatyam, and an activist for animal welfare. She was the first woman in Indian history to be nominated as a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of ...

  4. Alarmel Valli - Wikipedia

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    Alarmel Valli (born 14 September 1956) is an Indian classical dancer and Bharatanatyam-Pandanallur choreographer. [1] [2] She founded The Dipasikha Dance Foundation in Chennai in 1984, where she teaches Bharatanatyam. [3] In 1991, Alarmel Valli was the second youngest dancer to be conferred the Padma Shri from the Government of India, after ...

  5. Bharatanatyam - Wikipedia

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    A description of precursors of Bharatanatyam from the Natya Shastra dated around (500 BCE) [6] [7] and in the ancient Tamil epic Silappatikaram dated around (171 CE), [8] [9] while temple sculptures of the 6th to 9th century CE suggest dance was a refined performance art by the mid-1st millennium CE.

  6. Padma Subrahmanyam - Wikipedia

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    Padma Subrahmanyam was born to Krishnaswami Subrahmanyam, the Indian film director and Meenakshi Subrahmanyam on 4 February 1943 in Madras (now Chennai).Her father was a famous Indian filmmaker and her mother, Meenakshi was a music composer and a lyricist in Tamil and Sanskrit.

  7. Prateeksha Kashi - Wikipedia

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    The DVD was released by Yamini Krishnamurthy as a part of "Nayika-Excellence Personified," which was organised on the occasion of Woman's Day on 8 March 2014 in Bharathiya Vidhya Bhavan, Bangalore. [12] Kuchipudi was the artistic director of the Shambhavi School of Dance [13] and the former chairperson of Karnataka Sangeetha Nritya Academy. [14]

  8. E. Krishna Iyer - Wikipedia

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    Krishna Iyer vehemently protested against Muthulakshmi Reddy's attitude towards sadir in a series of letters published in the Madras Mail and sought to give the dance form a measure of respect by proposing a resolution at a 1932 meeting of the Madras Music Academy to rename it as "Bharatanatyam" or Indian dance.

  9. Sayee–Subbulakshmi - Wikipedia

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    Sayee (L) Guru Muthuswami Pillai, Subbulakshmi. Muthuswamy Pillai is a dance teacher [2] who has choreographed dances for films since 1938. P. A. Periyanayaki approached Muthuswami Pillai when he was choreographing a dance for B. S. Saroja in the film Inbavalli at Salem Ratna Studios.