Friday, October 30 at 7:30 pm
Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H St NE
Washington, DC 20002
Professor C. V. Chandrasekhar is one of India’s senior most Bharata Natyam dancers, 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 1980s, they performed with their daughters Chitra and Manjari. He now runs his own dance institution, Nrityashree, in Chennai.
He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Bharata Natyam 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 honored with the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India.
Professor Chandrasekhar started his dancing career in 1947, when there were few male dancers.[1] He served at the Banaras Hindu University and later joined M.S. University of Baroda, where he retired as the Head and Dean of the Faculty of Performing Arts in 1992. Professor Chandrasekhar is a multi-faceted personality being a dancer, choreographer, researcher, musician, academician, composer and highly acclaimed teacher of Bharata Natyam. He has been performing for the past six decades in India and all over the globe and is invited by many dancers the world over to teach and to choreograph. A much revered dancer who is now 80 years, his presentation of Bharata Natyam technique is at its finest and continues to be an inspiration for all dancers.
Chitra Chandrasekhar Dasarathy is the daughter and senior disciple of Professor Chandrasekhar. A renowned and respected dancer and choreographer in her own right, she will be joining Professor Chandrasekhar for the Fall Festival in Washington DC.
