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Tanjore Balasaraswati, [1] also known as Balasaraswati (13 May 1918 – 9 February 1984), was an Indian dancer, and her rendering of Bharatanatyam, a classical dance style originated in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, made this style of dancing well known in different parts of India and many parts of the world.
Mallika Sarabhai is an activist and Indian classical dancer and actress from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.Daughter of a classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai and space scientist Vikram Sarabhai, Mallika is an accomplished Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam dancer [1] and performer who has specialized in using the arts for social change and transformation.
She set up her dance training institute, Yamini School of Dance, in Hauz Khas in New Delhi. [10] Krishnamurthy was a recipient of the Padma Shri (1968), Padma Bhushan (2001), and Padma Vibhushan (2016) and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1977). [5] [11] [12] She also received the Natya Shastra award from the Shambhavi School of Dance in 2014 ...
Indrani Rahman with her portrait Indrani by M. F. Husain. Indrani Rahman (19 September 1930, Chennai – 5 February 1999, New York City) was an Indian classical dancer of Bharata Natyam, Kuchipudi, Kathakali, Odissi and the country's first beauty pageant titleholder. she popularised in the west and later settled in New York in 1976.
They founded and run the Natya Tarangini Institute of Kuchipudi Dance in New Delhi. The duo are credited with having given Kuchipudi a new dimension without compromising on its traditional virtues. [1] [2] For their services to the field of arts, the Government of India has conferred on them the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awards. [3] [4]
Kuchipudi (/ ˌ k uː tʃ ɪ ˈ p uː d i / KOO-chih-POO-dee) is one of the eight major Indian classical dances. [2] It originates from a village named Kuchipudi in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. [3] Kuchipudi is a dance-drama performance, with its roots in the ancient Hindu Sanskrit text of Natya Shastra.
Kuchipudi declined and was a dying art in 17th-century Andhra, [10] but in 1678, the last Shia Muslim Nawab of Golkonda, Abul Hasan Qutb Shah, saw a Kuchipudi performance and was so pleased that he granted the dancers lands around the Kuchipudi village, with the stipulation that they continue the dance-drama.
The new Karunanidhi government filed several corruption cases against her, and she had to spend time in jail. Her fortunes revived in the 1998 general election , as the AIADMK became a key component of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee 's 1998–99 government; her withdrawal of support toppled it and triggered another general election just a ...