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Bala Devi Chandrashekar is an American dancer specialized in the Indian classical dance form
Bala Devi worked in
Official websiteShree Padma Nrityam Academy
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Bharatanatyam
''Bharatanatyam'' is a Indian classical dance form that came from Tamil Nadu, India. It is a classical dance form recognized by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, and expresses South Indian religious themes and spiritual ideas of Hinduism and Jainism.< ...
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Career
Bala Devi worked in public administration
Public administration, or public policy and administration refers to "the management of public programs", or the "translation of politics into the reality that citizens see every day",Kettl, Donald and James Fessler. 2009. ''The Politics of the ...
and as a management consultant but later became a full-time dancer.
She has studied Bharatanatyam under Padma Subrahmanyam
Padma Subrahmanyam (born 4 February 1943, in Madras), is an Indian classical Bharatanatyam dancer. She is also a research scholar, choreographer, teacher, Indologist and author. She is famous in India as well as abroad; several films and documen ...
and performs using the style of Padma's school. She dances in the Vazhuvur style. Bala Devi has choreographed Bharatanatyam performances and performed for the Madras Music Season
Madras Music Season (more recently known as the Chennai Music Season) is a music festival hosted every mid-November to January in Chennai (formerly known as ''Madras'')
in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Spanning some 9 weeks, it features top-fl ...
. She has performed with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popula ...
.
Bala Devi has been artist-in-residence
Artist-in-residence (also Writer-in-residence), or artist residencies, encompass a wide spectrum of artistic programs that involve a collaboration between artists and hosting organisations, institutions, or communities. They are programs that pr ...
at the Carl A. Fields Center, Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...
. She has taught Princeton students.
Bala Devi was awarded the Kalaimamani
The Kalaimamani is the highest civilian award in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. These awards are given by the ''Tamil Nadu Iyal Isai Nataka Mandram'' (literature, music and theatre), a unit of the Directorate of Art and Culture, Government ...
for Bharatanatyam for 2012.
She teaches at Shree Padma Nrityam Academy, New Jersey.
Bala Devi is based in Princeton, New Jersey, is married to Chandrashekar and has two sons.
See also
*Indians in the New York City metropolitan area
Indians in the New York City metropolitan area constitute one of the largest and fastest-growing ethnicities in the New York City metropolitan area of the United States. The New York City region is home to the largest and most prominent Indian A ...
References
External links
Official website
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