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   The LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD will be given to Asha Gopal on April 27, 2024 by Soorya Performing Arts during American Natya Festival at St Louis, MO.  The MES KALAVEDI PURASKAR will be presented to Kalamandalam Usha Datar on April 21, 2024 at MES College auditorium, Bangalore  DR.PAPPU VENUGOPAL RAO passed away on April 7, 2024. Born on 30 June 1948, he was a well-known Indian educationist and musicologist. He specialized in Telugu and Sanskrit literature. He has written on varied subjects such as music, culture and spirituality. Dr Rao had three masters in Telugu, Sanskrit, English, a PhD in Sanskrit and Telugu and D.Litt in Indology. He worked with the American Institute of Indian Studies from 1978-2010 and retired as Associate Director General. He was a committee member of the Music Academy Chennai for two decades and also one of its Secretaries. He has translated five volumes of Sangita Sampradaya Pradarshini. The SVBC TV channel of Tirupathi produced and telecast a program entitled Annamayya Samkeertanarchana, with compositions of Annamacharya in 52 episodes each of 30 minutes duration with Dr.Rao’s detailed live commentary for all the 150 compositions and Dr.Balamurali Krishna’s lyrical guidance. On April 7, 2024 the first ever EHSAAS AWARD FOR ARTS were given to the following awardees at IIC, Delhi - Raja & Radha Reddy, Prof. Niren Sengupta, Shovana Narayan, Ranjana Gauhar, Wasifuddin Dagar, Sharon Lowen, Sonal Kalra, Rashmi Vaidialingam, Sadhna Srivastav, Radhika Chopra and Sanjay Arya.  During the World Dance Day festivities, the 5TH NATYA VRIKSHA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD will be conferred on dance scholar, historian, author, critic and commentator LEELA VENKATARAMAN, on April 20, 2024 at IIC, New Delhi. The award consists of an angavastram and a purse of Rs. One lakh.  Dr.C Radhakrishna, last of the nattuvanars from traditional Naidu families of Karnataka, who propagated the Kolar Sampradaya of Karnataka Nritya Parampara (Mysore school of Bharatanatyam), passed away on 30th March 2024 after a brief illness. He was 96 years old. He has left a worthy legacy of his relentless work of 80 years to the field of Bharatanatyam.  The title of NRITHYA RATHNAKARA was bestowed by Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival upon SREKALA BHARATH and ACHARYA RATHNAKARA for Padmini Krishnamurthy on April 13, 2024. Young talents Sutikshna Veeravalli (MA), Adithi Arunkumar (IL), Sharanya Balaji (CA), received KALA RATHNA.  The Madras Music Academy will confer SANGITA KALANIDHI award on Carnatic musician TM Krishna. Prof Parassala Ravi (V Raveendran Nair) and Geetha Raja will be conferred with SANGITA KALA ACHARYA awards. S Narasimhan and S Venkatesan, known as Thiruvaiyyaru Brothers, and violinist H K Narasimhamurthy will receive TTV AWARD. MUSICOLOGIST AWARD goes to Dr. Margaret Bastin. The music awards will be given on January 1, 2025 during the sadas. Mohiniattam dancer Dr Neena Prasad will be conferred NRITYA KALANIDHI Award at the inauguration of the Annual Dance Festival on January 3, 2025. The General Council of Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama, New Delhi, at its meeting held on 21 and 22 Feb 2024 at New Delhi unanimously elected 6 eminent personalities in the field of performing arts as Akademi Fellows (Akademi Ratna). The honour carries a purse money of Rupees three lakhs. The General Council also selected 92 artists from the field of Music, Dance, Theatre, Traditional / Folk / Tribal Music / Dance / Theatre, Puppetry and Overall contribution / scholarship in the Performing Arts for the Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards (Akademi Puraskar) for the years 2022 & 2023. The Award carries a purse money of Rupees one lakh, a Tamrapatra and Angavastram. . The Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships and Awards were conferred by the President of India Droupadi Murmu in a special investiture ceremony on March 6, 2024. The General Council of the Akademi has also selected 80 young artists for Sangeet Natak Akademi Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for the years 2022 & 2023. The Puraskar carries a purse money of Rs. 25,000 besides a Tamrapatra and Angavastram. These awards will be conferred by the Chairman, Sangeet Natak Akademi, in a special ceremony. AKADEMI RATNA: Vinayak Khedekar, R. Visweswaran, Sunayana Hazarilal, Raja & Radha Reddy, Dulal Roy, D.P. Sinha AWARDEES FOR THE YEAR 2022 AKADEMI PURASKAR for Dance: Manjula Ramaswamy (BN), Nalini and Kamalini Asthana (Kathak), Kalamandalam Balasubrahmaniam (Kathakali), S. Noyonshakhi Devi (Manipuri), Bhagavatula Sethuram (Kuchipudi), Niranjan Rout (Odissi), Gobinda Saikia (Sattriya), Kala Vijayan (Mohiniattam), Sadhucharan Mahato (Chhau), Bharat Sharma (Creative & Experimental Dance), Karuna Borah (Other major traditions of dance and dance theatre- Ankiya Bhawan), Pusthakam Ramaa (Music for dance) Margi Madhu Chakyar (Other major traditions of Theatre –Kutiyattam) Chingtham Ranjeet Khuman (Thang Ta, Manipur) OVERALL CONTRIBUTION/SCHOLARSHIP IN PERFORMING ARTS Lakshahira Das (Overall contribution in performing arts), Prameela Gurumurthy (Scholarship in performing arts) USTAD BISMILLAH KHAN YUVA PURASKAR for Dance: Mandakranta Roy (BN), Kadam Saurinbhai Parikh (Kathak), Urmika Maibam (Manipuri), T.Reddi Lakshmi (Kuchipudi), Arupa Gayatri Panda (Odissi), Dimpee Baishya (Sattriya), Akshara M Das (Mohiniattam), Pradyumna Kumar Mohanta (Chhau), Mingma Dorjee Lepcha (Creative & Experimental Dance), Aparna Nangiar (Nangiarkoothu) Moirangthem Kendra Singh (Nata Sankirtan, Manipur) Anuthama Murali (Overall contribution in performing arts) AWARDEES FOR THE YEAR 2023 AKADEMI PURASKAR for Dance: Urmila Sathyanarayanan (BN), Jagdish Gangani (Kathak), Margi Vijayakumar (Kathakali). Latasana Devi (Manipuri), Maddali Usha Gayatri (Kuchipudi), Snehaprava Samantaray (Odissi), Bhaben Borbayan (Sattriya), Pallavi Krishnan (Mohiniattam), Parikshit Mahato (Chhau), Nirupama & Rajendra (Creative & Experimental Dance), Perini Prakash (Other major traditions of dance and dance theatre- Periniattam), Kalinath Mishra (Music for dance) Piyal Bhattacharya (Other major traditions of theatre –Sanskrit Theatre) OVERALL CONTRIBUTION/SCHOLARSHIP IN PERFORMING ARTS Gopalan Nair Venu (Venu G - Overall contribution in performing arts), Jagdish Trivedi (Scholarship in performing arts) USTAD BISMILLAH KHAN YUVA PURASKAR for Dance: Apoorva Jayaraman (BN), Meghranjani Medhi (Kathak), Kalamandalam Vipin (Vipis V.S - Kathakali), Pukhrambam Reepa Devi (Manipuri), M. Surendra Nadh (Kuchipudi), Debasish Pattnaik (Odissi), Mukunda Saikia (Sattriya), Vidyamol Pradeep (Mohiniattam), Sunita Mahato (Chhau), Venkateshwaran Kuppuswamy (Music for Dance) B. Mallikarjuna Rao (Allied Theatre Arts – Make-up) Laxminarayan Jena (Overall contribution in performing arts)  The Union government on Jan 25, 2024 released the list of winners of the Padma Awards 2024, conferred by the Govt of India, to recognize exceptional contributions in various fields. The list comprises 5 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 110 Padma Shri Awards. 30 of the awardees are women. The list also includes 8 persons from the category of Foreigners / NRI / PIO / OCI and 9 Posthumous awardees. - PADMA VIBHUSHAN 2024 Vyjayantimala Bali (Bharatanatyam, Chennai) Padma Subrahmanyam (Bharata Nrityam, Chennai) - PADMA SHRI 2024 PV Sadanam Balakrishnan (Kalluvazhi Kathakali, Kerala) Anupama Hoskere (puppetry, Bangalore) EP Narayanan (Theyyam, Kannur) Gaddam Sammaiah (Chindu Yakshaganam, Telangana) Omprakash Sharma (Mach folk theatre, Madhya Pradesh) Nepal Chandra Sutradhar (Purulia Chhau, mask maker, W Bengal, posthumous) M Badrappan (Valli Oyil Kumi, Tamilnadu) Baghabat Padhan (Sabda Nrutya, Odisha)  The convenors of the 2024 Natya Kala Conference of Krishna Gana Sabha are Kathak duo Nirupama and Rajendra of Bangalore.  Vadodara based Mohiniattam dancer Dr. Ayswaria Wariar to receive the GUJARAT GAURAV PURASKAR 2018-2019 from the Gujarat Sangeet Natak Akademi, Dept of Sports, Youth and Culture, Govt. of Gujarat.  Bharatanatyam Guru M.R. Krishnamurthy (for 2020-2021) and Kuchipudi dancer Sunanda Devi (for 2021-2022) are to be honored with the SHANTALA AWARD by the Karnataka government later in the year. Highlights ; Obituaries |
