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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).
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 ...
Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla (b. 1958) – international parasports athlete; Malladi Venkata Krishna Murthy (b. 1949) – Telugu-language writer; Mukkamala Krishna Murthy or Mukkamala (1920–1987) – actor and film director; Mungara Yamini Krishnamurthy or Yamini Krishnamurthy (1940–2024) – traditional and folk dancer
Bharatanātyam is an Indian classical dance form that originated in Tamil Nadu, India. [1] [2] It is a classical dance form recognized by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, and expresses South Indian religious themes and spiritual ideas of Hinduism and Jainism.
Born on 14 July 1921 in Karaikal in French India (nowadays the Indian union territory of Pondicherry), to A. K. Natesa Pillai, a known musician, he started training initially in music under his father, but later turned to Bharatanatyam and learned under his grandfather, who was a teacher of the dance form. [1]
M. K. Saroja was born on 7 April 1931 at Chennai (erstwhile Madras), in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.She started learning classical dance when she was five years old, along with her sister, under the tutelage of Muthukumaran Pillai, [2] a known classical dance teacher and reportedly, the first dance teacher at Rukmini Devi Arundale's Kalakshetra, who taught many renowned classical dancers ...
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.
Alarmel Valli 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 Vyjayanthimala.