Tuesday 18 July 2017

Padma shri Dr. Nataraja Ramakrishna Full Interview


Padma shri Dr. Nataraja Ramakrishna Full Interview


           Nataraja Ramakrishna was born in 21 March 1933 at Bali of Indonesia to an ethnic Indian migrant family of Telugu descent from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Nataraja Ramakrishna was very famous for his "Perini Shiva Thandavam" dance. Nataraja Ramakrishna was interested in all types of classical dance forms. He left his family and property for the love of art since his father did not approve of it. During his childhood he came in touch with gurus like Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai, Vedantam Laxminarayana Sastry, Naidupeta Rajamma, Pendyala Satyabhama and Jampa Muthyam under whom he learnt various forms of art like Kuchipudi, Perini Lasyam dance, Classical Kathak dance and Abhinayam. He performed many Kuchipudi dance and Perini Lasyam dance of telugu states across the globe and thus brought worldwide recognition to Perini Dance of state of Telangana.


Over his long career he trained many dancers and wrote and choreographed highly acclaimed dance dramas. He helped to propagate "Chindu Yakshaganam" an ancient folk dance form of Telangana and revived other folk arts like "Tappetagullu" of Srikakulam and Vizianagaram districts. He established Nritya Niketan - a dance school at Hyderabad. "Kala Prapoorna,"- a doctorate from the Andhra University and a Barata Kala Prapoorna,'- by Andhra Pradesh Sangeet Natak Academy and NTR State Award by Andhra Pradesh State government. He got the Prestigious "Padma Shri" award in 1992.
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