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Indian Women In Dance
This list of Indian women in dance includes women from India or of Indian parentage who are notable for their involvement with modern or traditional Indian dance, as dancers or choreographers. This list is not for women whose involvement with dance is not central to their careers, as is the case with many Bollywood actresses. Choreographers * Rukmini Devi Arundale * Saroj Khan * Chitra Visweswaran * Oopali Operajita * Farah Khan * Vaibhavi Merchant * Kala * Geeta Kapoor * Brinda * Pony Verma * Gauri Jog * Chandralekha * Savitha Sastry Dancers * Aishwarya Rai Bachchan * Alarmel Valli * Anila Sunder * Baisali Mohanty * Balasaraswati T * Bhanupriya * Deepti Omchery Bhalla * Esha Deol * Gauhar Jaan * Hema Malini * Jugnu Ishiqui * Kalamandalam Kalyanikutty Amma * Kumari Kamala * Kanak Rele * Kasturi Pattanaik * Leela Samson * Madhavi Mudgal * Mallika Sarabhai * Mamata Shankar * Manisha Gulyani * Manju Bhargavi * Manju Warrier * Medha Yodh * Meenakshi Seshadri * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shobana
Shobana Chandrakumar Pillai (born 21 March 1970) is an Indian actress and Bharatanatyam dancer. She acts predominantly in Malayalam films along with Telugu and Tamil films with few Hindi, Kannada and English films. She has won two National Film Awards, one Kerala State Film Awards, two Filmfare Awards South, with 14 Nominations for Best Actress Category in three different south Indian languages, Tamil Nadu State's Kalaimamani Award in 2011 and numerous other awards. She won the National Film Award for Best Actress twice, for her performances in the Malayalam film ''Manichitrathazhu'' (1993) and the English film ''Mitr, My Friend'' (2001). Subsequent to the year 1999, Shobana turned extremely selective about her films. Shobana was trained under the Bharata Natyam dancers Chitra Visweswaran and Padma Subrahmanyam. She emerged as an independent performer and choreographer in her twenties and currently runs a dance school, ''Kalarpana'', in Chennai. In 2006, the Government of In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pony Verma
Rashmi Verma, known professionally as Pony Verma, is an Indian dance choreographer, who began her career in the year 2000. She has also done a dance reality show, ''Chak Dhoom Dhoom'' for Colors channel. Pony Verma married actor Prakash Raj on 24 August 2010. They have one child together: a boy born in February 2016. Filmography References External links * Pony Verma – Bollywood’s ace choreographerPony Verma Received Gr8 Women Awards 2015 in Dubai {{DEFAULTSORT:Verma, Pony Living people Indian women choreographers Indian choreographers 1977 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hema Malini
Hema Malini (born 16 October 1948) is an Indian actress, director, producer, and politician. She is primarily known for her work in Hindi films. Known for starring in both comic and dramatic roles, she is one of the most popular and successful leading actresses of mainstream Hindi cinema. She is known as ''Dream Girl'' of Hindi cinema. Malini made her acting debut in 1963 with the Tamil film ''Idhu Sathiyam''. Malini first acted in a lead role in ''Sapno Ka Saudagar'' (1968), and went on to feature in numerous Hindi films, frequently opposite Dharmendra, whom she married in 1980. Malini was initially promoted as the "Dream Girl", and in 1977 starred in a film of the same name. During her career, she received eleven nominations for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress, winning the award in 1973. In 2000, Malini won the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2019 Filmfare Special Award for 50 Years of Outstanding Contribution to Cinema. She is also honoured with the Padma S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gauhar Jaan
Gauhar Jaan (born Angelina Yeoward; 26 June 1873 – 17 January 1930) was an Indian singer and dancer from Kolkata. She was one of the first performers to record music on 78 rpm records in India, which was later released by the Gramophone Company of India and resulted in her being known as "the Gramophone girl" and "the first recording superstar of India". Having recorded more than 600 songs in more than ten languages between 1902 and 1920, Jaan is credited with popularising Hindustani classical music such as ''thumri'', ''dadra'', ''kajri'', and ''tarana'' during the period. Early life Gauhar Jaan was born as Eleen Angelina Yeoward on 26 June 1873 in Azamgarh, of Armenian descent. Her father, Robert William Yeoward, worked as an engineer in a dry ice factory, and married her mother, Adeline Victoria Hemmings, in 1872. Victoria, an Indian by birth, had been trained in music and dance. In 1879 the marriage ended, causing hardships to both mother and daughter, who moved to Bana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esha Deol
Esha Deol Takhtani (born 2 November 1981) is an Indian actress and model who predominantly appears in Hindi films. The daughter of actor-politicians Dharmendra and Hema Malini, Deol made her debut in ''Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe'' (2002), which earned her awards and nominations including the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. Early life Esha Deol was born in Bombay (present Mumbai) on 2 November 1981. She is the elder daughter of Bollywood actors Dharmendra (Dharam Singh Deol) and Hema Malini. She has a younger sister named Ahana. She is the half sister of actors Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol and first cousin of actor Abhay Deol. Her father is Punjabi Jat, and her mother Tamil Hindu Iyengar Brahmin. She speaks Tamil with her mother and sister. During her school days at Jamnabai Narsee School, she was passionate about football and played as a midfielder. She was the captain of her school football team, represented her college in handball at the state level and was also selected f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deepti Omchery Bhalla
Deepti Omchery Bhalla (born 1957) is a professor in Carnatic Music at the Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, University of Delhi, and a Mohiniyattam dancer. Education Bhalla was born in Delhi in 1957. She was trained in dancing and singing by her mother Leela Omchery, a carnatic singer. She learned Mohiniyattam, the female classical solo dance from Kerala, from Kalamandalam Kalyanikutty Amma. Bhalla attended the University of Delhi, where she obtained her bachelors, masters, and Phd in Carnatic music. Career Bhalla served as an assistant secretary at the Sahitya Kala Parishad in Delhi. She became an assistant professor at the University of Delhi in 1985. She became an associate professor in 1995, and a professor in 1996. Her research has focused on music and dance from Kerala. Awards She received the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award in 2006, and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2007. References External links Official website See also *Kalamandalam Kalyan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhanupriya
Bhanupriya (born Mangabhanu; 15 January 1967) is an Indian actress, Kuchipudi dancer, and voice artist. In a career spanning over 4 decades, Bhanupriya has appeared in 155 feature films- predominantly in Telugu & Tamil, in addition to occasional performances in Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi films as well. She has started in a variety of roles, ranging from slapstick comedy-to-epic dramas. She has garnered three state Nandi Awards, two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, two Filmfare Awards South and two Cinema Express Awards. Early life Bhanupriya was born on 15 January 1967 in Rangampeta village near Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh in a Telugu-speaking family, to Pandu Babu and Ragamali. She was named as Mangabhanu. Her family later moved to Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She has an elder brother Gopikrishana and a younger sister Shantipriya, who has also been a film actress since the 1990s. Career She was one of the mainstream top actresses for more than a decade from 1983 to 1995. She made her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balasaraswati T
Tanjore Balasaraswati, 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. She was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1957 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1977, the third and the second highest civilian honours given by the Government of India. In 1981 she was awarded the ''Sangeetha Kalasikhamani'' award of The Indian Fine Arts Society, Chennai. Early life and background Balasaraswati was a seventh generation representative of a traditional matrilineal family of temple musicians and dancers ( devadasis, who traditionally enjoyed high social status), who have been described as the greatest single repository of the traditional performing arts of music and dance of the southern region of India. Her ancestor, Papammal, was a musician and dancer patroni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baisali Mohanty
Baisali Mohanty (born 5 August 1994) is an Indian classical dancer and choreographer, author, columnist and analyst of foreign and public policy. She is a regular contributor on foreign policy and strategic affairs to several prestigious international publications including American business magazine ''Forbes'', ''The Huffington Post'', ''The Diplomat'' and openDemocracy, London. She is the founder of Oxford Odissi Centre that is involved in promotion and training of Odissi dance at University of Oxford and other leading institutions in the United Kingdom. She is an ALC Global Fellow for the year 2015–16 affiliated to University of Oxford. Early life and education Baisali Mohanty was born on 5 August 1994 in Puri, Odisha, to renowned feminist, poet and author Manasi Pradhan and Radha Binod Mohanty, an electrical engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology. She was educated at Blessed Sacrament High School Puri and KIIT International School, Bhubaneswar. She received h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anila Sunder
Anila Sunder is an Indian classical dancer - Kathak and Odissi exponent - belonging to the Sindhi community. She has experimented with various themes and has incorporated few aspects of the Indian folk dance to give shape to the Sindhi dance drama. Some of her ballets include ''Sindhu'' that depicted the lost civilization of Mohenjodaro, ''Sikka Sajan Jee'' – love legends of Sindh, ''Theeu Na Juda Jani Munkhaan'' – questioning of love versus wealth, and ''Sindh Munhinjee Amma'' - narrated stories of the trials and tribulations of Sindhis from the India partition days. Early life Anila Sunder was born on the 11th of November, 1951 in Ulhasnagar to medical practitioners Dr.Nanki and Dr.Gobind Makhijani. She obtained a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology at Mumbai University and was a lecturer at Jai Hind College, Mumbai. She graduated the Kathak Examination from Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Allahabad at the age of 11. She trained under the gurus Hazarilal and Damayanti Joshi, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alarmel Valli
Alarmel Valli is a leading Indian classical dancer and choreographer and the foremost exponent of the Pandanallur style in the Indian classical dance form, Bharatanatyam. She is widely acclaimed for her ability to turn traditional grammar into deeply internalized, personal dance poetry. She founded The Dipasikha Dance Foundation in Chennai in 1984, where she teaches Bharatanatyam. In 1991, Alarmel Valli was the second youngest dancer to be conferred the Padma Shri from the Government of India, after Vyjayanthimala. She was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2001 by India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama, followed by one of India's highest civilian honours – the Padma Bhushan award from the Government of India in 2004 and Chevalier of Arts and Letters award from the Government of France, also in 2004. Early life Alarmel Valli was born and brought up in Chennai, where she did her schooling at The Sacred Heart Matriculation School, Church Park, Chennai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan ( Rai; born 1 November 1973) is an Indian actress who is primarily known for her work in Hindi and Tamil films. The winner of the Miss World 1994 pageant, she has established herself as one of the most popular celebrities in India. Rai has received numerous accolades, including two Filmfare Awards, and was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2009 and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France in 2012. She has often been cited in the media as "the most beautiful woman in the world". While in college, Rai did a few modelling jobs. Following appearances in several television commercials, she entered the Miss India pageant, in which she placed second. She was then crowned Miss World 1994, after which she began receiving offers to act in film. She made her acting debut in Mani Ratnam's 1997 Tamil film ''Iruvar'' and had her first Hindi film release in ''Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya'' that same year. Her first commercial succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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