Sanjay Kumar Joshi is the first-ever male to do Vilasini Natyam.

Sattiriya is the traditional dance of Vaishnava sattras monasteries in Assam. Shankara Deva instituted Brajavali as the language of Sattriya compositions, not Sanskrit or Assamese.

T. Balasaraswathi regularly featured Radhakrishna Naidu, an AIR artist on the clarionet in her dance performances.
('Western connection' by Sriram Venkatakrishnan in The Hindu Friday Review, Aug 8, 2008).

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