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I D/M C (Uday Shankar (30s-40s); Almora School (Narendra Sharma (40s…
I D/M C
Uday Shankar (30s-40s); Almora School
Narendra Sharma (40s then?); Modern in THEME
Santosh Nair (???)
Shanti Bardhan (meets and is with Shankar from 1940-1944); Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA); backed by the Communist Party (which was opposing Gandhi's Congress Party; founded in 1943
Shekharan Paniker
Sachin Shankar (cousin of Uday); Modern in THEME
Yog Sunder; said to emulate UShankar; Worked with Tagore, Gopal, UShankar
Under Kunchu Nair worked with Tara Chaudhuri, Shevanti, Rajeshwar
Lots of history and detail w/ his Indian Revival Group; however, I want to look into other resources about him and determine whether he’s strictly classical as I see no mention of him not being, and the descriptions in this link don’t suggest he isn’t
Chowdhury; said to emulate UShankar
Gopalkrishna; said to emulate UShankar (same as Ram Gopal????)
Ram Gopal (no students; just partners); Ram’s other partners: Shevanti, Mrinalini, Kumudini
Ram; 30s and 40s, combined many forms;discovered by La Meri (American ethnic dancer)
Kumudini Lakhia (60s)
Daksha Sheth (???); student of Lakhia; “After Uday Shankar, Daksha Sheth remains first and last genius of modern dance in India”
Tara Chaudhri the Anna Pavlova of India
Partner to Ram Gopal (who had proclivities to partner with big names and beauties)
India became partitioned, so thus Lahore became part of Pakistan, as did Tara
Prominent dancer in Punjab, 30s-40s
1976, 5-day festival discussing what Contemporary dance was
Prabhat Ganguli, Sachin Shankar, Narendra Sharma, Shekharan Panikar, Yog Sunder, Nataraj-Shankuntala, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Kumudini Lakhia
Mohan Khokar, academic
1984 East-West Dance Encounter
Chandralekha
Uttara Asha Coorlawala (arguably pioneer modern dancer); nothing was traditional indian, everything was modern
Astad Deboo, similar to Coorlawala, BUT there is a sense of Indian structure and themes
Guru Gopinath (w/ partner Raghivi Devi; American formerly Esther Sherman), 30s,
Valmiki Bannerjee
Studied in Calcutta during 45-56 (thriving culturally)
Learned Indian Ballet with Gopinath
Contemporary themes; post-partition communal riots
Opened a branch of IPTI in Delhi (w/ Purnendu Chatterjee
Worked with Rabindranath Tagore
Nritarutya (Upadhya sisters!); Jayachandran Pallazhy (use of technology); Madhu Nataraj
Rabindranath Tagore
Eswara Krishna Iyer
ACTIVIST; 32/33 helped stop a gov. Reg. banning the art of the devadasis
Roberto Theodore Rivero (arriving to India in late 40s, born of Spanish mother and Russian father, from PA, U.S.A.)
Naled Nala (good in Tamil) Najan
Danced Bharatanatyam
No in-depth mention of any change from the classical form so perhaps not modern, cept by the politics of his body?
In the 40s; Rukmini Devi (set the Adyar/Madras (a place) on fire, as a Brahmin (highest caste) doing Bharatanatyam); Rukmini Devi; Brahmin girl dancing the art of the devadasis (35s turning point for her)
Kalakshetra (“mother of all institutions for teaching Bharatanatyam)
Anna Pavlova met her and insp. her to take ballet