C. V. Chandrasekhar, Date of Birth

    

C. V. Chandrasekhar

Indian dancer

Date of Birth: 22-May-1935

Profession: composer, choreographer, dancer

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About C. V. Chandrasekhar

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  • Chandrasekhar (born 22 May 1935) is an Indian Bharatanatyam dancer, academician, dance scholar, composer, and choreographer.
  • He retired as Head of the Faculty of Performing Arts of M.S.
  • University, Baroda in 1992.
  • Professor Chandrashekhar and wife Jaya Chandrasekhar are one of the best known dancing couples of Bharata Natyam in India, during the 1970s and ’80s, they performed with their daughters Chitra and Manjari.
  • Also, his grandchildren Viraj, Dhenuka, Harshavardhan and Amshuman have been of great support to him.
  • He now runs his own dance institution, Nrityashree, in Chennai.He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Bharatnatyam in 1993, by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama, and received the Kalidas Samman in 2008.
  • In 2011, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India.

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