Where did the style of dance of which Aniruddha Knight is an artist originate?
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Aniruddha Knight Aniruddha Knight (November 13, 1980) is an artist of South Asian classical dance and music known as Bharatanatyam. He is a 9th-generation descendant of a 200-year-old family of dancers and musicians from southern India. The dances are traditionally performed by women - Knight is unusually the first male of his family to take up this style of dance. His grandmother Balasaraswati was a celebrated and prolific dancer, "Newsweek" said she has been "recognized as the greatest Indian dancer of all time".
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Bharatanatyam Bharatanatyam, sometimes referred to as Bharathanatiyam or Sadir, is a major genre of Indian classical dance that originated in Tamil Nadu. Traditionally, Bharatanatyam has been a solo dance that was performed exclusively by women, and expressed Hindu religious themes and spiritual ideas, particularly of Shaivism, but also of Vaishnavism and Shaktism.
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Marfa (music) The "Marfa" (Urdu: مرفع‎ ) is a form of celebratory rhythmic music and dance in Hyderabad, India, among the Hyderabadi Muslims, adapted from Afro-Arab music of Hadhramawt in Yemen. played with high tempo using Marfa (instrument) "daff", "Dhol", "sticks", "steel pots" and "wooden strips" called "thapi". The Chorus effects and vocal meter are set according to beats.
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Manipuri dance Manipuri dance, also known as Jagoi, is one of the major Indian classical dance forms, named after the region of its origin – Manipur, a state in northeastern India bordering with Myanmar (Burma), Assam, Nagaland and Mizoram. It is particularly known for its Hindu Vaishnavism themes, and exquisite performances of love-inspired dance drama of Radha-Krishna called Raslila. However, the dance is also performed to themes related to Shaivism, Shaktism and regional deities such as Umang Lai during Lai Haraoba.
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Asha Sarath Asha Sharath was born as the daughter of Krishnan Kutty, a retired employee of Travancore Rayons and Kalamandalam Sumathi, managing director of Natyalaya School of Classical Dance. A renowned dancer, Kalamandalam Sumathi has won several awards and accolades including Sangeetha Nataka Academy Fellowship, Award from Kerala Kalamandalam and National Award from Akshaya. It was her mother who initiated Asha to the world of Indian classical dance. Asha started learning dance at the tender age of three. Her father and two brothers Balagopal and Venugopal were her biggest inspiration to become a dancer. She is graduated from Sree Sankara College Kalady
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Sundanese dance Sundanese dances is a dance tradition that is a part of ritual, artistic expression as well as entertainment and social conduct among the Sundanese people of West Java, Indonesia. Sundanese dance is usually cheerful, dynamic and expressive, with flowing movements in-sync with the beat of kendang accompanied with Gamelan degung music ensemble.
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Mosak sulmani dance The Mosak sulmani dance is a traditional Indian dance. It originated in Tripura, India.
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Raqs sharqi Raqs sharqi (Arabic: رقص شرقي‎ ‎ , ] ; literally "oriental dancing") is the classical Egyptian style of belly dance that developed during the first half of the 20th century.
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Dance in Indonesia Dance in Indonesia (Indonesian: "Tarian Indonesia" ) reflects the country's diversity of ethnicities and cultures. There are more than 700 ethnic groups in Indonesia: Austronesian roots and Melanesian tribal forms are visible, and influences ranging from neighbouring Asian and even western styles through colonisation. Each ethnic group has their own dances; makes total dances in Indonesia are more than 3,000 Indonesian original dances. The old traditions of dance and drama are being preserved in the many dance schools which flourish not only in the courts but also in the modern, government-run or supervised art academies.
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Chakra Tanam Chakra Tanam (Sanskrit चक्र तानम्) is one of the styles of tanam singing in Carnatic Classical Music tradition. It owes its name to the circular or cyclic approach adopted by the performer.
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Chitra Visweswaran Chitra Visweswaran is an Indian Bharata Natyam dancer who runs a dance school, the Chidambaram Academy of Performing Arts, in Chennai.
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Deodhani dance Deodhani dance () is a folk dance from the Indian state of Assam. It is as a solo or group performance. In the group performance, it essentially comprises 3 or 4 women. This dance form is associated with the worship of the snake goddess Manasa or Maroi. A Deodhani dance is generally performed to the accompaniment of songs sung by an "oja", an Assamese traditional chorus leader, during the dance.
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Indian classical dance Indian classical dance, or Shastriya Nritya, is an umbrella term for various performance arts rooted in religious Hindu musical theatre styles, whose theory and practice can be traced to the Sanskrit text "Natya Shastra".
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Lata Pada Lata Pada, (ಲತಾ ಪಾದ) CM (born, Nov.7, 1947) is an Indian-born Canadian choreographer and Bharatanatyam dancer. Pada is the founder and artistic director of Sampradaya Dance Creations, a dance company that performs South Asian dance. She is also the founder and director of Sampradaya Dance Academy, a leading professional dance training institution that is the only South Asian dance school in North America affiliated with the prestigious, UK-based Imperial Society for Teachers of Dancing. Pada founded the dance company in 1990; Pada said that she founded the company because she wanted to showcase Bharatantyam dance as an art form throughout the world. Pada is known as an influential figure in South Asian-style dance in Canada.
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Aniruddha Bhattacharya Aniruddha Bhattacharya is a professional playback vocalist in the Telugu film industry. He hails from Kolkata, West Bengal. He started singing at the age of 5 and underwent training in Indian Classical Music under several stalwarts the most recent being Pt. Falguni Mitra of Bettiah Benaras Gharana. He has acquired many styles of singing including the steadiness and open voiced recitals required in Dhrupad and Dhamar. As he progressed through his teens and matured as a singer he took up commercial singing guided by Mr. Prabir Karmakar and Mr. Buddhadeb Ganguly (stalwart music composer and guitarist). He also underwent training in Classical and semi classical music under Pt. Jayanta Sarkar, Rabindra Sangeet under Pt. Agnibho Banerjee and Mr Anutosh Chatterjee. Taking his inclination towards instruments to the next level he pursued learning Table under the legendary Tabla Guru Pt. Sujit Saha and Guitar under the immensely respected Mr. Amyt Datta.
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Kalyan (choreographer) Kalyan is an Indian choreographer who has primarily worked on Tamil and Telugu language films as well as Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada films.. After beginning his career as a dancer and actor, he has gone on to choreograph songs in over two hundred films as a popular choreographer. He has also been a Judge in the popular reality TV dance shows Jodi Number One and Kings of Dance for Vijay TV.
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Charadupinnikkali Charadupinnikali or Urikkali is a dance form practiced in South Kerala. The play is performed holding the cords hung at the place of performance. At the end of play, the cords become a rough form of "uri" and later the "uri" is undone. This makes a part of Thiruvathira.
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Raja and Radha Reddy Raja (born October 6, 1943) and Radha Reddy (b. February 15, 1955) are a legendary Kuchipudi dancing couple, gurus and choreographers. Their names are synonymous with Kuchipudi dance and are regarded solely responsible for bringing it on the cultural map of the world.. For their services to the field of arts, the Government of India have conferred on them the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awards. They are the only family completely dedicated to dance- Raja, his two wives and two daughters.
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Thiriyuzhichil Thiriyuzhichil is a dance ritual performed by Pulluvas in Kerala (South India) to alleviate the fear of snakes, to appease the snake and to be blessed with babies. This is more popular in the districts of Trichur, Calicut and Palghat and it is performed in Hindu Temples and shrines meant for snakes. By performing this, the queen of snakes could be appeased. The performer starts dancing holding a torch in his hand using various types of music instruments.
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Khorumi The Khorumi (Georgian: ხორუმი ) is a war dance that originated in the region of Adjara, which is located in the southwestern region of Georgia. The dance was originally performed by only a few men. However, over time it has grown in scale. In today’s version of the Khorumi, thirty or forty dancers can participate.
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Kadhirur Gurukkal Kadhirur Gurukkal, also known as Mathiloor Gurukkal, was a martial artist of medieval India. He came from Kadirur, near to Thalasserry in the North Malabar region of present-day Kerala. He operated the Mathiloor Kalari, where Thacholi Othenan trained in Kalaripayattu.
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List of Indian folk dances Indian folk and tribal dances are simple dances, and are performed to express joy and happiness among themselves. Folk and tribal dances are performed for every possible occasion, to celebrate the arrival of seasons, birth of a child, a wedding and festivals. The dances are extremely simple with minimum of steps or movement. The dances burst with verve and vitality. Men and women perform some dances exclusively, while in some performances men and women dance together. On most occasions, the dancers sing themselves, while being accompanied by artists on the instruments. Each form of dance has a specific costume. Most costumes are flamboyant with extensive jewels. While there are numerous ancient folk and tribal dances, many are constantly being improved. The skill and the imagination of the dances influence the performance.