Padma subramanyam-Bharatanatyam Dancer- profile- biography – FilmyVoice
Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam, the
legendary Bharatnatyam dancer is a uncommon
mixture of a dancer, analysis
scholar, choreographer, music composer & musician, instructor, writer and
indologist. She is now the director of ‘Nrithyodaya’- the dance college based
in 1942 by her father, in Chennai.
Padma grew up in an atmosphere
the place each her mother and father have been artistically inclined. Her father Ok. Subrahmanyam
was an internationally reputed movie director, freedom fighter and a parental
persona within the cultural discipline whereas her mom Meenakshi was a dancer,
choreographer, instrumentalist and a lyricist in Sanskrit and Tamil.
Padma Subrahmanyam began
studying dance underneath Kausalya, a younger instructor at Nrityodaya. Later, she got here underneath the wings of guru Vazhuvoor Ramaiah Pillai. Shehad her ‘arangetram’ (first efficiency) in 1956, since then she has given innumerable performances in concert events performed by her guru, her college in India and toured overseas extensively throughout the previous three many years. In the meantime she continued her formal
school training. She has had plenty of gurus particularly throughout her research-
Guru Dandayuthapani Pillai and the assorted Devadasis from whom she realized ‘
adavus’, Gowri Ammal from whom she learnt ‘abhinaya’ being a few of them. Padma
has additionally educated in music underneath B.V. Lakshman and Salil Chaudhry.
Padma has a Bachelor’s diploma
in Music, Grasp’s in Ethno Musicology and Ph.D in dance from Annamalai
College. As a analysis scholar she did her thesis on ‘Karanas in Indian dance
and sculpture’ and highlighted the truth that the 108 Karanas (which is the fundamental
models of dance) are literally actions and never simply static poses. She has additionally
designed the sculptures of the 108 Karanas of Lord Siva and Goddess Parvati in
black granite for the Nataraja temple at Satara in Maharashtra. She has given
a number of solo and group shows comparable to ‘ Meenakshi Kalyanam’, ‘
Viralimalai Kuravanji’, ‘Silappadikaram’, ‘ Vande Mataram’ and so forth. and composed
music for many of her compositions and sung for a few albums. She was the
first dancer to introduce ‘Pushpanjali’ as a dance piece and to make use of a ‘meera
bhajan’ to be scored to swimsuit the grammar of ‘Pada Varnam’ and has revived the
mono performing method in her dance dramas. She has additionally composed the primary
Bengali Varnam, set to the lyrics by Salil Chaudhry. She has quite a few articles,
analysis papers and travelogues to her credit score like ‘Bharata’s Artwork – then and now’, ‘Bharatakkalai Kotpadu’ (in Tamil), ‘Natya Sastra and Nationwide Unity’ and
‘Kanchi Mahaswami’s Imaginative and prescient of Asian Tradition’. She has written ‘Legacy of a Legend’ which is a group of articles by her.
Padma Subramanyam has many awards
and honours to her credit score together with ‘Padma Bhushan’, ‘Padmashri’, ‘Sangeet Natak
Akademi Award’, ‘Kalaimamani Award’ from Govt. of Tamilnadu, ‘Kalidas Samman’
from Govt. of Madhya Pradesh, ‘Nada Brahmam’ from Narada Gana Sabha in Chennai,
‘Bharata Sastra Rakshamani’ and so forth. She has additionally obtained the distinguished
‘Fukuoka Asian Cultural Prize’ from Japan for her contribution to improvement
and concord in Asia. She has served as a non-official member of the
Indo-Sub-commission for training and tradition.
This multi faceted and multi
gifted artist enchants viewers together with her good gestures, timing, expressions
and authentic concepts. Well-known in India in addition to overseas, a number of movies and
documentaries have been made in her honour by international locations like Japan, Australia
and Russia. She imparts her immense data to others by instructing dance,
conducting workshops, giving lectures, doing analysis and writing articles.
Contact tackle
Nrithyodaya
No.6, IV Fundamental Highway,
Gandhi Nagar,
Chennai – 600 020, India.
Cellphone 044 – 2491
0575 / 0618
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