Kalanidhi narayanan biography
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- Kalanidhi Narayanan (7 December 1928 – 21 February 2016) was an Indian dancer and teacher of Indian classical dance form of Bharatnatyam, who was the early.
- Kalanidhi Narayanan was an Indian dancer and teacher of Indian classical dance form of Bharatnatyam, who was the early non-devadasi girl to learn the dance form and perform it on stage in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Kalanidhi Naryanan (1928-2016)
- Ashish Mohan Khokar
e-mail: khokar1960@gmail.com
February 23, 2016
She was universally known as Maami. As though the word was her name. In Madras dance circles, this name stood for Kalanidhi Narayanan (1928-2016) and for no other ordinary maami of Mylapore or Mambalam. She was the quintessential dance aunty, teacher, friend, guru. She was amiable, affable and admirable. Amiable to all, affable to many and admirable because she didn't dance for half her life professionally but when she returned to stage, even if for abhinaya items, she made a huge impact.
Born on December 7, 1928, she learnt from Kannappa Mudaliar (brother-in-law of Elappa Pillai) of Kanchipuram and from Chinayya Naidu renowned for abhinaya skills. Additionally she learnt abhinaya from Mylapore Gowri Ammal and used this learning to great effect when she did only abhinaya pieces. She also learnt meaning of shastras and hasta mudras from scholar-teacher S. Sarada. She stopped dancing in 1943 and returned to stage in mid seventies. Due to the halt in her dance career f
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| She had a brief dance career in the 1940s, before she step out at the age of sixteen, when he mother died and she was married to a conservative family. She returned to dance when in 1973, when noted art-patron, Y. G. Doraiswamy, who had seen her performances as a teen, asked to instruct dancer Alarmel Valli in abhinaya, to which she agreed, encouraged by her sons who had by now grown up. This started the second phase of her career after a gap of 30 years at the age of 46. | ||
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Kalanidhi Narayanan (December 7, 1928 – February 21, 2016)Padmabhushan Kalanidhi Narayanan was the first non-devadasi girl to learn this art form and perform it on stage. Her career path was unusual. While she trained intensively from the age of seven to sixteen, she completely gave up her connections with the world of Bharatanatyam for thirty years. At the age of forty-six in 1973 she re-entered the field and has gained awards and recognitions including the coveted Padmabhushan from the Government of India. She died at the ripe age of 87. Kalanidhi Narayan’s her first stage-debut (Arangetram) at the age of 12 at the Senate House in Chennai, for the Madras Music Academy. As a dancer it was three months before that of Arundale on December 30, 1935, but Kalanidhi Mami never publicized the fact. Till about a decade ago, if you asked any Bharatanatyam dancer in Chennai who was their Guru in Abhinayam or mimetic dance, Kalanidhi Narayanan’s name would inevitably pop up eight out of ten times. She became synonymous with the modern technique of ‘teaching Abhinayam’. Since the Copyright ©armywing.pages.dev 2025 | ||