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    Bharatanatyam word was derived by joining two Sanskrit words: 'Natyam' meaning dance and 'Bharata' which is a mnemonic containing 'Bha' (bhava/emotions), 'Ra'...
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    Award, Shobana turned extremely selective about her films. Shobana is a Bharata Natyam dancer. She did her dance training at the Chidambaram academy in Chennai...
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    Chitra Visweswaran is an Indian Bharata Natyam dancer who runs a dance school, the Chidambaram Academy of Performing Arts, in Chennai. She was awarded...
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  • Khoo Bu-Aun) is Malaysian dancer of the Indian classical dance form, Bharata Natyam. Born on 30 April 1976 born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a youngest son...
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    re-establishment of traditional Indian arts and crafts. She espoused the cause of Bharata Natyam which was considered a vulgar art. She 'sanitised' and removed the inherent...
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    Subrahmanyam (born 4 February 1943, in Madras), is an Indian classical Bharata Natyam dancer. She is also a research scholar, choreographer, teacher, Indologist...
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    since gained popularity for her dancing, particularly for her work in Bharata Natyam, a form of Indian classical dance, and was later given the Sangeet Natak...
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  • 1982), better known as Ragini Devi, was an Indian classical dancer of Bharata Natyam, Kuchipudi, Kathakali and Odissi, which she popularised in the west...
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    Rajashree Warrier is a Bharata Natyam dancer. She is also a writer in Malayalam and a vocalist. Rajasree Warrier was born and brought up in Thiruvananthapuram...
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    extended to Indian classical arts, such as songs, dance culture such as Bharata Natyam in south India and Rasa Lila in northeast India, plays and recitations...
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    inner surface of the left temple of Gandhi's spectacles that reads "भारत" (Bhārata), the Hindi word for India. The next one (which are printed only in 10...
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  • 19th century in Thanjavur, form the main classical masterpieces of Bharata Natyam. Baroda Guru Kubernath Tanjorkar (1916 - 2007), a disciple of Pillai...
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    of the dances considered to be part of the Indian classical canon (Bharata Natyam, Chhau, Kathak, Kathakali, Kuchipudi, Manipuri, Mohiniattam, Odissi...
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    why she was not put in the top league. Banu started taking Kathak and Bharata Natyam lessons, and trained herself professionally. Soon she became a dancer...
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    Prathibha Prahlad (b 1962) is a Bharata Natyam dancer, educator, choreographer, arts administrator, and author. She was the founder director of the Delhi...
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    Theater Arts at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Nikhila learned Bharata Natyam, Kuchipudi, Kerala Natanam and Monoact and made her presence at youth...
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    Ayogya (2018) and Ayushman Bhava (2019). She is a trained classical Bharata Natyam dancer who has given more than 50 performances. She has a sister, Nithya...
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    Rani in dance classes at age five; she would train in Kuchipudi and Bharata Natyam. At age 7, she was roped in by her brother for his short film based...
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    – 5 February 1999, New York City) was an Indian classical dancer of Bharata Natyam, Kuchipudi, Kathakali, Odissi and beauty pageant titleholder. she popularised...
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    South India (redirect from Dakshina Bharata)
    Mohiniaattam and Yakshagana. Other regional folk dances include Andhra Natyam, Karakattam, Kavadi, Kerala Natanam, Koodiyattam, Margamkali, Oppana, Ottamthullal...
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  • Balasaraswati, T (1976). "Bharata Natyam". NCPA Quarterly Journal. 4: 1-8. Katrak, Ketu H. (2004). "Cultural Translation of Bharata Natyam into Contemporary Indian...
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    influences. In 1979, she returned to Canada. Pada's solo dances featured bharata natyam in a traditional form and in a more contemporary style. In 1990, Pada...
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    studying a number of foreign dance forms. Cole became well-versed in bharata nāṭyam, India's oldest dance technique, first by studying with dancers Uday...
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    Balasaraswati created a revolution in traditional music and dance for bharata natyam, a combination of the performance arts of music and dance. She learned...
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    Archived from the original on 13 May 2009. Anne-Marie Gaston (1996). Bharata natyam: from temple to theatre. Manohar. p. 225. Arangetram (dance debut) in...
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  • Swapnasundari is an Indian dancer, an exponent of Kuchipudi and Bharata Natyam, a choreographer and a vocalist. She is a recipient of the Padma Bhushan...
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  • in 1970 and began her training in the Indian classical dance-styles Bharata Natyam as a child. She graduated from Birla Institute of Technology and Science...
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  • instruments such as tabla; and various classical dance forms such as Odissi, Bharata Natyam, and Kathak. ABGMVM has laid out courses of study in these performing...
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  • (now in Jharkhand). She trained in four Indian classical dance forms, Bharata Natyam, Kuchipudi, Kathak, and Odissi, under Vempati Chinna Satyam and Jaya...
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    of the dances considered to be part of the Indian classical canon (Bharata Natyam, Chhau, Kathak, Kathakali, Kuchipudi, Manipuri, Mohiniattam, Odissi...
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