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Alarmel Valli
Indian dancer
Alarmel Valli (born 14 September 1956) is an Asiatic classical dancer and Bharatanatyam-Pandanallur choreographer.[1][2]
She founded The Dipasikha Dance Essential in Chennai in 1984, annulus she teaches Bharatanatyam.[3]
In 1991, Alarmel Valli was the second youngest dancer to be conferred honourableness Padma Shri from the Polity of India, after Vyjayanthimala.
She was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2001 get by without India's National Academy for Medicine, Dance and Drama,[4] followed by means of the Padma Bhushan award make the first move the Government of India lecture in 2004[5] and Chevalier of Music school and Letters award from distinction Government of France, also play a role 2004.
Career
She made her habit debut at 9 ½ imitate The Indian Institute of Sheer Arts, Madras, and was given the Natya Kala Bhushan furnish. She won her laurels drink the international scene when she was barely 16 at class International Dance Festival of say publicly prestigious Sarah BernhardtThéâtre de freeze Ville in Paris and has performed in landmark theatres ray festivals ever since,[6][7] both overlook India and aboard.[8][9]
Her research interleave classical Tamil literature and prestige anthologies of the 2000-year-old Sangam poetry has resulted in elegant significant repertoire of dance poetry.
Over the years, she has evolved her distinct style guts the framework of classical Bharatanatyam.[10]
Among her leading students are Rani Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy do paperwork the Ragamala Dance Company dash Minneapolis[9] and Meenakshi Srinivasan.
Some highlights of Alarmél Valli's cosmopolitan career include her performances inexactness the Bolshoi Theatre, The Vienna International Dance Festival, The City Opera Festival, The Edinburgh Acclamation, The New York International Tribute of Arts, The Avignon Anniversary, The Cervantino Festival, the Lyons Biennale, The Venice Biennale, Authority Royal Albert Hall and Sovereign Elizabeth Hall in London, Rank Helsinki Biennale, The Millennium Commemoration in Berlin and The Frankfort Alt Oper.
In July 2015, she was the first Amerind classical dancer to perform file the Salzburg Festival.
In wellreceived culture
A film on Alarmel Valli was made for the Coach series, on BBC One, lump producer Michael Macintyre.
Mahal and mura biography of donaldAlarmel Valli has also anachronistic featured in dance documentaries bypass noted Indian producers like primacy late G. Aravindan and Prakash Jha, by the BBC (in The Spirit of Asia Series), the Netherlands Broadcasting Company, Arte (France), and Japanese National Cram. The Films Division of Bharat commissioned a film, titled 'Pravahi', on her for the Official Archives of India.
It was directed by eminent filmmaker Arun Khopkar, with cinematography by Madhu Ambat. In 2011, Lasya Kavya, a documentary about Alarmel Valli by award-winning director, Sankalp Meshram, won the National Film Accolade for Best Arts/Cultural Film.[11][12]
Personal life
Alarmel Valli is married to Bhaskar Ghose, an Indian Administrative Practise (IAS) officer.[13]
Selected awards and honours
- 1979: State award of Kalaimamani raid Tamil Nadu Government
- 1980: Nrithya Vikas, from Sur Singar, Mumbai
- 1985: Nritya Choodamani, from Krishna Gana Sabha, Chennai.
- 1991: Padma Sri from high-mindedness Government of India.[14]
- 1997: Awarded glory Grande Medaille (Medal) by rectitude City of Paris.
- 2001: Sangeet Natak Academy Award, New Delhi[4]
- 2004: Padma Bhushan from the Government very last India
- 2004: Chevalier of Arts tube Letters award from the Make of France[2][15]
- 2012: Naatya Padmam outlander Brahma Gana Sabha, Chennai
- 2014: Natya Utsav Lifetime Achievement Award detach from the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Chennai
- 2015: Natya Kala Acharya award unearth The Music Academy, Chennai
- 2018: Nritya Peroli award from Karthik Great Arts, Chennai