Kalakshetra Foundation, formerly simply Kalakshetra, is an arts and cultural academy dedicated to the preservation of traditional values in Indian art...
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at Chennai. Today the academy is a deemed university under the Kalakshetra Foundation and is situated in its new in 100-acre (0.40 km2) campus in Tiruvanmiyur...
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Amala Akkineni (category Kalakshetra Foundation alumni)
brother. Amala holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Bharatanatyam from Kalakshetra arts and cultural academy, Madras. She gave many live performances worldwide...
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US$20.0 billion. His current engagements include Chairperson – Kalakshetra Foundation, Chairperson – National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Chairperson...
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Gingger Shankar (category Kalakshetra Foundation alumni)
she learned to sing, dance, and play violin and piano and attended the Kalakshetra creative arts school in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Later, she studied opera...
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Leela Samson (category Kalakshetra Foundation alumni)
Kendra in Delhi for many years. She was appointed as the director of Kalakshetra by the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance in April 2005. She was...
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Bharatanatyam. Based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, she served as director of the Kalakshetra Foundation from 2013 to 2017 and has performed and taught Bharatanatyam in...
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older sister Geetha Sridhar have trained in Bharatanatyam at the Kalakshetra Foundation. Geetha runs the UK-based dance company Natyashri as part of which...
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Sanjukta Panigrahi (category Kalakshetra Foundation alumni)
success, her parents decided to send her for better dance training, to Kalakshetra at Chennai. There she continued her lessons under the guidance of Rukmini...
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(IIPE) at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh". pib.nic.in. "Act | Kalakshetra Foundation" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved...
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teacher, and arts administrator. She served as the Director of the Kalakshetra Foundation in Chennai from April 2018 to October 2023. A specialist in the...
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Sadhguru (section Isha Foundation)
Kalakshetra Foundation in Chennai. She married Indian classical vocalist Sandeep Narayan in 2014. In 1992, Sadhguru established the Isha Foundation as...
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was two years old. She trained as a dancer through lessons at the Kalakshetra Foundation, while also completing a bachelor's degree in psychology, a course...
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Anjali Mehr (category Kalakshetra Foundation alumni)
disciples of the legendary Rukmini Devi, and among the first students of the Kalakshetra, she played a vital role in building and strengthening dance-education...
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education from Sacred Heart Convent GHSS, Thrissur, and then joined Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai, where she did her graduation and postgraduation in dancing...
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additional duties as the Governor of Bihar. He was the chairman of Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai from December 2011 to May 2014. In 2015, he translated...
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Anita Ratnam (category Kalakshetra Foundation alumni)
Bharatanatyam guru, Adyar K. Lakshman and later went to Rukmini Devi Arundale's 'Kalakshetra' for advanced training and earned a Post graduate diploma in Dance. She...
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New Delhi Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manava Sangrahalaya, Bhopal Kalakshetra Foundation, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library, Patna...
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Dhananjayans (category Kalakshetra Foundation alumni)
Panicker of Kalakshetra made his father decide to send his son and V. Balagopalan to Kalakshetra under his tutelage. Dhananjayan joined Kalakshetra on 5th...
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Radha Burnier (category Kalakshetra Foundation alumni)
in Rukmini Devi Arundale's school of classical Indian dance (the Kalakshetra Foundation). She attended the Benares Hindu University from which she obtained...
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Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (category Kalakshetra Foundation alumni)
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (3 April 1903 – 29 October 1988) was an Indian social reformer. She has worked for the promotion of Indian handicrafts, handlooms...
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Bharatanatyam and Kathakali. A prominent figure associated with the Kalakshetra Foundation in Chennai, he gained widespread recognition for his portrayal of...
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Jaya Thyagarajan (category Kalakshetra Foundation alumni)
Indian Philosophy in 1978, she obtained a diploma in Fine Arts from the Kalakshetra School of fine arts in Madras under the guidance of Shri K. Sreenivasulu...
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C. V. Chandrasekhar (category Kalakshetra Foundation alumni)
diploma (Bharatanatyam), after he trained at the internationally renowned Kalakshetra in Chennai, under the mentorship of Rukmini Devi Arundale, Karaikkal...
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Ananda Shankar Jayant (category Kalakshetra Foundation alumni)
K. N. Pakkiriswamy Pillai, and in 1972 at the age of 11, she joined Kalakshetra of Rukmini Devi Arundale where she trained in Bharatanatyam under teachers...
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M. D. Ramanathan (category Kalakshetra Foundation alumni)
Rukmini Devi Arundale initiated a new course on Sangeeta Siromani at Kalakshetra. Ramanathan auditioned for the course and was the only student to be...
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Joyce K. Paul (category Kalakshetra Foundation alumni)
anthropologist from India. Classically trained in Bharatanatyam from Kalakshetra, she is known for her technical acumen, rigour, and precision. Paul had...
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festival for young audiences. He was also the theater director of Kalakshetra Foundation's dance theater production on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 150th...
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Satpathy, Priyadarshini Govind, Vaibhav Arekar 2019–Navia Natarajan, Kalakshetra Foundation, A. Lakshman, Methil Devika, Rama Vaidyanathan, Urmila Sathyanarayanan...
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Neila Sathyalingam (category Kalakshetra Foundation alumni)
choreographer and instructor of Sri Lankan Tamil origin. An alumna of Kalakshetra in Madras (now Chennai) under the tutelage of Srimathi Rukmini Devi Arundale...
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