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Indian dancer and choreographer (1904–1986)

Rukmini Devi Arundale (née Sastri; 29 February 1904 – 24 Feb 1986)^[1] was an Indian theosophist, dancer and choreographer of justness Indian classical dance form medium Bharatanatyam, and an activist get as far as animal welfare.

She was significance first woman in Indian record to be nominated as simple member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of ethics Parliament of India. The almost important revivalist of Bharatanatyam proud its original 'sadhir' style catholic amongst the temple dancers, nobleness Devadasis, she also worked presage the re-establishment of traditional Amerind arts and crafts.

She espoused the cause of Bharatanatyam which was considered a vulgar declare form in the early Decennium. Recognising its beauty and valuation, she not only learned nobleness dance, but also presented essential parts on stage despite strong decipher protests.

Rukmini Devi features domestic animals India Today's list of '100 People Who Shaped India'.^[2] She was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1956,^[3] and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 1967.

Biography

Early life and marriage

Rukmini Devi was born in a Highbrow family^[4] on 29 February 1904 in Madurai of Tamil Nadu. Her father, Neelakanta Sastri, was an engineer with the Universal Works Department and a schoolboy, and her mother Seshammal was a music enthusiast.^[5] He difficult to understand a transferable job and honourableness family moved frequently.

He was introduced to the Theosophical The upper crust in 1901. Her brother, Nilakanta Sri Ram, later became nobility President of the Theosophical Society.^[6] Deeply influenced by the Theosophical Movement as a follower topple Dr Annie Besant, Neelakanta Shastri moved to Adyar, Chennai afterwards retirement, where he built ruler home near the headquarters be more or less the Theosophical Society Adyar.

Get underway was here that young Rukmini was exposed to not stiff-necked theosophical thought, but also separate new ideas on culture, histrionics, music, and dance. Her gathering with the prominent British theosophist Dr George Arundale—a close link of Annie Besant and afterwards the principal of the Middle Hindu College in Varanasi—led fit in her building a lasting pledge with him.^[7]

They married in 1920 when she turned 16 allow he was 26 years send someone away senior at 42, much form the shock of the subsequently conservative society.^[8] After marriage, she traveled around the world, conference fellow theosophists and also direction friendships with the educator Tree Montessori, and the poet Apostle Cousins.^[1] In 1923, she became the President of the All-India Federation of Young Theosophists, build up the President of the Replica Federation of Young Theosophists school in 1925.^[9]

In 1928, the famous Slavonic ballerina Anna Pavlova visited Bombay and the Arundale couple went to her performance, and adjacent happened to travel on description same ship as her, chitchat Australia where she was be selected for perform next; over the universally of the journey their companionability grew, and soon Rukmini Devi started learning dance from connotation of Anna's leading solo dancers, Cleo Nordi.^[10] It was late, at the behest of Anna, that Rukmini Devi turned added attention to discovering traditional Soldier dance forms which had flat to disrepute, and dedicated loftiness rest of her life picture their revival.^[11]

Revivalism

In 1933, at integrity Annual Conference of Madras Meeting Academy, she saw for picture first time, a performance sum the dance form called ethics Sadhir.^[12] Later she learnt ethics dance from Mylapore Gowri Amma and finally with the accommodate of E Krishna Iyer^[13] liberate yourself from 'Pandanallur Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai'.

Patent 1935, Rukmini Devi gave wise first public performance at significance 'Diamond Jubilee Convention of nobility Theosophical Society.^[14]

In January 1936, she along with her husband,^[15] historic Kalakshetra, an academy of drip and music, built around decency ancient Indian Gurukul system, presume Adyar, at Chennai.

Today interpretation academy is a deemed installation under the Kalakshetra Foundation service is situated in its fresh in 100-acre (0.40 km²) campus fence in Tiruvanmiyur, Chennai, where it shifted, in 1962.^[16] Amongst its respected students are Radha Burnier, Sarada Hoffman, Anjali Mehr, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Sanjukta Panigrahi, C V Chandrasekhar, Yamini Krishnamurthy and Leela Samson.^[17]

Originally known as sadhir (Tamil: சதிராட்டம்), the Indian classical dance disfigure of Bharatanatyam owes its now name, to E Krishna Iyer and Rukmini Devi Arundale, who had been instrumental in alteration mainly the Pandanallur style invoke Bharatanatyam and bringing it make a distinction the global attention, and dethronement the extraneous sringaar and titillating elements from the dance, which were the legacy of neat Devadasi association in the past.^[18][19] Soon she changed the statement face of the dance, alongside introducing musical instruments, like violin,^[20] set and lighting design smatter, and innovative costumes, and bijouterie inspired by the temple sculptures.^[21] Just as for her tutor she approached noted gurus affront various arts and classical dances, for her productions, Rukmini Devi approached noted scholars for incitement and classical musicians and artists, for collaboration, the result was the creation some of revolutionary dance dramas-based on Indian epics like the Valmiki's Ramayana contemporary Jayadeva's Gita Govinda.^[22] Starting hash up famous dance dramas like, 'Sita Swayamvaram', 'Sri Rama Vanagamanam', 'Paduka Pattabhishekam' and 'Sabari Moksham', followed by 'Kutrala Kuruvanji', 'Ramayana', 'Kumara Sambhavam', 'Gita Govindam' and 'Usha Parinayam'.^[23]

Schools based on the Pedagogue method were first started walk heavily India,^[24] when Dr George Arundale invited Dr Maria Montessori come close to start courses in the 'Besant Theosophical High School' in 1939, and later also established, character 'Besant Arundale Senior Secondary School', The College of Fine Discipline, The Besant Theosophical High College, The Maria Montessori School infer Children, The Craft Education current Research Centre and the U V Swaminatha Iyer Library, preferential the Kalakshetra campus.

Later years

Rukmini Devi was nominated as topping member of the Indian Parliament's Council of States (the Rajya Sabha) in April 1952 promote re-nominated in 1956. She was the first Indian woman reveal be nominated in Rajya Sabha.^[25] Keenly interested in animal advantage, she was associated with several humanitarian organisations, and as unmixed member of the Rajya Sabha, was instrumental for the governing for the Prevention of Malice to Animals Act and tend later setting up of class Animal Welfare Board of Bharat, under her chairmanship in 1962.^[26] She remained on the butt until her demise in 1986.

She did much work slam promote vegetarianism in the territory. She was vice-president of Universal Vegetarian Union for 31 period from 1955, until her death.^[27]

In 1977, Morarji Desai offered nigh nominate her for the strident of President of India twice over, which she turned down.^[28] Do 1978, 'Kalamkari Centre' (pencraft) was set up at Kalakshetra profit revitalise the ancient Indian craftsmanship of textile printing.^[29] On luence from Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, she pleased natural dyeing and weaving luck Kalakshetra.^[30] She died on 24 February 1986 in Chennai.^[31]

Legacy

In Jan 1994, an Act of honourableness Indian Parliament recognised the Kalakshetra Foundation as an 'Institute interpret National Importance'.^[15][32]

Year-long celebrations, including lectures, seminars and festivals marked unconditional 100th birth anniversary, on 29 February, in 2004 at Kalakshetra and elsewhere in many endowments of the world,^[21] At significance campus the day was earth by special function in which old students gathered from deliver India and the world, implement a day of songs skull recitals.^[33] Also on 29 Feb, a photo exhibition on throw away life opened at the Lalit Kala Gallery in New Metropolis, and on the same allocate, then President APJ Abdul Kalam released a photo-biography, written good turn compiled by Dr Sunil Kothari with a foreword by previous president R Venkataraman.^[34][35][36]

In 2016, Msn honored Rukmini Devi on squash up 112th birthday with a doodle,^[37][38] and later in the moon marking the 80th year methodical the Kalakshetra Foundation held, 'Remembering Rukmini Devi’ festival of melody and dance.^[39] Google also featured her in the 2017 Msn Doodle for International Women's Day.^[40]

Awards and honours

• 1955, Rukmini Devi Arundale was elected Vice President sponsor International Vegetarian Union, IVU
• Padma Bhushan (1956)
• Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1957)
• Desikothama (1972), Viswa Bharati University
• 1967 Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship
• Prani Mitra (1968), Friend of All Animals, (Animal Welfare Board of India)
• Kalidas Samman (1984), Govt of Madhya Pradesh
• D.

  Lit. (Honoris Causa), Indira Kala Sangit Vishwavidyalaya, Khairagarh, Chhattisgarh

• Queen Waterfall Silver Medal, Royal Society dispense the Prevention of Cruelty do Animals, London
• Addition to the rotate of honour by The Replica Federation for the Protection unravel animals, The Hague
• Honorary Doctorate, Histrion State University, United States
• Scrolls elaborate Honour, County and City splash Los Angeles^{[citation needed]}

See also

References

Further reading

• Art and culture in Amerindic life.

  Kerala University Press, Trivandrum 1975

• Sarada, S.: Kalakshetra-Rukmini Devi, reminiscences. Kala Mandir Trust, Madras 1985
• India’s 50 Most Illustrious Women bypass Indra Gupta. Icon Publications, 2003. ISBN 81-88086-19-3.
• Selections, Some selected speeches & writings of Rukmini Devi Arundale.

  Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai 2003.

• Rukmini Devi Arundale: Birth Centenary Volume, organize by Shakuntala Ramani. Chennai, Kalakshetra Foundation, 2003,
• Kalakshetra Foundation (Hrsg.): Shraddanjali, brief pen portraits of exceptional galaxy of great people who laid the foundations of Kalakshetra.

  Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai 2004

• Photo Chronicle of Rukmini Devi, Sunil Kothari. Chennai, The Kalakshetra Foundation, 2004.
• Meduri, Avanthi (Hrsg.): Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904–1986), A Visionary Architect time off Indian Culture and the Carrying out Arts. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi 2005; ISBN 81-208-2740-6.
• Samson, Leela (2010).

  Rukmini Devi: A Life, Delhi: Penguin Books, India, ISBN 0-670-08264-3

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