Choreographer

Meenakshi Srinivasan

Indian dancer and architect

Born 1971India
Meenakshi Srinivasan
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Meenakshi Srinivasan is an Indian choreographer, born in 1971.

Biography

Meenakshi Srinivasan (born 11 June 1971) is an Indian classical dancer and choreographer, and an exponent of the Pandanallur style of Bharatnatyam. She trained under Alarmel Valli and is considered among the most promising soloists of the younger generation of dancers in this traditional style.

She has performed at the annual international dance festival of the Madras Music Academy, the SIFAS Festival of Indian Classical Music and Dance in Singapore, and the Musee Guimet in Paris. She received the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar from Sangeet Natak Akademi in 2011.

In addition Srinivasan is a professional architect and runs a boutique architectural practice called Calm Studio in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

From the Wikipedia article “Meenakshi Srinivasan”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Contemporaries

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