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Selma
Jeanne Cohen, Historian of Dance, passed away on December 23, 2005 at the
age of 85, due to complications from Alzheimer's disease. She is known
for her achievement in editing of the comprehensive The International Encyclopedia
of Dance. It was published in 1998 for Oxford University Press, after nearly
2 decades of work on it. In 1959, Cohen, A. J Pischl and Sheppard
Black found Dance Perspectives, a journal dedicated to monographs on various
aspects of world dance. After it ceased publication in 1976, the Dance
Perspectives Foundation, which she had established, continued to award
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Bhubaneswar
based journalist Bibhuti Mishra passed away at the age of 45, on November
29, 2005 following a massive heart attack. He was a well known art critic,
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Jaya
Krishnaratnam passed away on Thursday morning, November 10, 2005, in northern
California where she had made her home with her daughter Nalini for more
than twenty years. She was once a singer who accompanied many Kalakshetra
performances along with the late Kamala Rani, singing for Rukmini Devi's
own performances as well as for the new dance-dramas that sprang from her
most gifted imagination and became manifest on the stage, and still delight
us today.
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Renowned
Carnatic musician and composer Madurai N Krishnan, age 77, passed away
in hospital in the early hours of Sunday October 9, 2005. His end came
at the culmination of 2 years of illness brought upon by kidney ailments.
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Legendary
Sri Lankan Kandyan Dancer Chitrasena died on July 18, 2005 at the age of
84. He was cremated in the evening at the Borella cemetery according
to his wish. It was strictly a private funeral in the presence of his closest
relations. He is survived by his wife Vajira, his daughters Upekha and
Anjalike, and son Anudattha.
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T Vasu passed away on May 11, 2005 at Chennai after a brief illness, at
age 76. He was the president of Music Academy, Chennai, from 1983 and was
well known for his contribution to the arts in Tamilnadu. |
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Sachin
Shankar, director of the Sachin Shankar Ballet Unit, passed away in Mumbai
at the age of 81 on May 10, 2005.
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Born
on November 13, 1925, dancer, singer and actor Surya Kumari passed away
on April 25, 2005 at 79 years of age. |
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Guru
K N Dakshinamoorthy Pillai, the great nattuvunar, teacher, choreographer
and percussionist and the keeper of the Dandayudhapani Pillai Bani tradition,
passed away on the night of April 25th in New Delhi after a brief illness.
He was 77 years old. President of Natyakalalayam, Dakshinamoorthy
Pillai was the younger brother of the late K N Dandayudhapani Pillai. He
was associated with several leading dancers, among them Yamini Krishnamurthi,
Sonal Mansingh, Hema Rajagopal, Swapnasundari and Geeta Chandran. He is
survived by two sons and three daughters. During his lifetime, he
trained several hundred students in the art of Bharatanatyam, conducted
hundreds of performances, and inspired his students.
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Anandi
Ramachandran passed away in Chennai on March 16, 2005. She was 71. Daughter
of late Tamil scholar Kalki Krishnamurthy, Anandi was a well known musicologist,
Tamil writer, and Bharatanatyam teacher of the Kalakshetra bani. Her daughter
Gowri Ramnarayan is an art critic and writer for The Hindu. |
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Bharatanatyam
guru U S Krishna Rao passed away at 8:38am in Bangalore on March 6, 2005.
He was 92 and is survived by two sons. U S Krishna Rao was a dancer, choreographer,
renowned teacher and author of books on dance.
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Dancer
Kanchana Sharma, disciple of Mangudi Dorairaja Iyer, passed away on March
6, 2005 at Chennai. She was 56. |
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Bharatanatyam
guru T K Narayan, founder of Academy of Bharatanatyam in 1948, passed away
on March 2, 2005 at the age of 82. He was a close associate of dancer Ram
Gopal and was a former Principal of the Govt College of Music and Dance,
Hyderabad. |
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