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Rukmini Devi Arundale
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Indian dancer and choreographer (1904–1986)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1904
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Rukmini Devi Arundale birth centenary volume
- Shraddanjali
- Art and culture in Indian life
- Some selected speeches & writings of Rukmini Devi Arundale
via Open Library + Wikidata
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Quotes
- “I was brought up on Music, and being near Tiruvaiyaru for sometime during childhood , I got several opportunities to listen to great Music.”
- “To be truly Indian one had to be truly international, exhorting them to honour the best in all civilizations and to live it in their daily lives.”
- “That she learned ballet not with the idea of becoming a full-fledged dancer. It was just to train my body and more for the sheer joy of learning something beautiful.”
- “To recreate the temple atmosphere on the urban stage, and thus to facilitate a new kind of seeing that would enable the spiritual revival of the dance.”
- “Dance was really the art of the temple and that her temple theater was built with that purpose in mind. It has many features of the temple , and we have adopted as much as possible all the ideals enshrined in Natyashastra.”
- “We dance with our bodies, but we finally forget them and transform them.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Rukmani Neelakanta Sastri , ( 1904-02-29 ) 29 February 1904, Madurai , India
- Died
- 24 February 1986 (1986-02-24) (aged 81), Chennai , Tamil Nadu , India
- Years active
- 1920–1986
- Spouse
- George Arundale ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1920 )
- Awards
- Padma Bhushan (1956), Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (1967)
- Constituency
- Nominated
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Rukmini Devi Arundale (née Sastri; 29 February 1904 – 24 February 1986) was an Indian theosophist, dancer and choreographer of the Indian classical dance form of Bharatanatyam, and an activist for animal welfare.
She was the first woman in Indian history to be nominated as a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India. The most important revivalist of Bharatanatyam from its original 'sadhir' style prevalent amongst the temple dancers, the Devadasis, she also worked for the re-establishment of traditional Indian arts and crafts.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rukmini Devi Arundale” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.