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Cinema Nritya
(2021 Update: I am no longer updating this blog but hope you enjoy my older posts!)
Bringing light to classical and traditional Indian dances in the cinema of India; unearthing rare archival clips and academic research on South Asian dance!
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- Research on dance, cinema, and history
- Rare finds
from film dances
and
real-life footage
- Scholarly/academic writings
;
archive finds
- Films with dance styles:
Bharatanatyam
,
Kathak
,
Kathakali
,
Kuchipudi
,
Manipuri
,
Mohiniattam
,
Odissi
,
Sattriya
,
Kootiyattam
- Documentaries
about or featuring dance
- Films with special-topic dances:
practice
,
twin
,
male
,
humorous
, from
early cinema
, from
Western films
, inspired by
Busby Berkeley,
Rabindra Nritya/Tagore
- Dances from less-common language films:
Bengali
,
Kannada
,
Malayalam
,
Odia
,
Assamese,
Sinhala
- Film dances
I hope to find someday
Looking for a Dancer or Person?
A White Chick
Aditi Rao Hydari
Adyar Lakshman
Alarmel Valli
Amubi Singh
Anjana Banerjee
Anoushka Shankar
Anuj Mishra
Archita Sahu
Balasaraswati
Bhagavathula Venkata Rama Sarma
Bhanupriya
Bhaskar
Birju Maharaj
Bulbul Chowdhury
Busby Berkeley
Chiranjeevi
Chitrasena Dance Company
Chittaranjan Acharya
Claudine Auger
Devadasis
Devayani
Dr. Neena Prasad
EV Saroja
Gauri Ammal
Geeta Chandran
Girish Karnad
Gopi Krishna
Guru Gopalakrishnan
Guru Gopinath
Hamsa Moily
Helen
Hema Malini
Hemamalini Arni
Indrani Rehman
Jack Cole
Janaki Rangarajan
Jayalakshmi Eswar
Jayapradha
Kalamandalam Kshemavathy
Kalamandalam Leelamma
Kamal Hassan
Kamala
Kavya Mahadevan
Kelucharan Mohapatra
KN Dandayudhapani Pillai
Komal Mahuvakar
Krishnajyoti
Kuchala Kumari
Kumkum Mohanty
L Vijayalakshmi
La Meri
Lakshmi Gopalaswamy
Lalitha
Latha
Leela Samson
Little Ballet Troupe
M.S. Sarojini
Madame Menaka
Madhavi
Madhumati
Madhuri Dixit
Mahabir Singh
Mahua Roychoudhury
Malavika
Mamata Shankar
Manju Bhargavi
Manju Warrier
Margi Sathi
Meenakshi Seshadri
Menaka Indian Ballet
MGR
Minati Mishra
Mohanlal
Muthukumara Pillai
Muthuswami Pillai
Nrityagram
NTR
P.A. Periyanayaki
Padma Subrahmanyam
Padmini
Padmini Dahanayake Ariyadasa
Pallavi Krishnan
Pernia Qureshi
Prachi Mehta
R. Padma
Radha Burnier
Ragini
Ram Gopal
Ranjini
Rekha
Revathy
Rhadha
Rituparna Sengupta
Rituparno Ghosh
Roshan Kumari
Rukmini Vijayakumar
Ruth St. Denis
Sabitha Bhamidipati
Sadhona Bose
Sai-Subbulakshmi
Sakti Swarupa Bir
Sandhya
Sandhya Raju
Sanjukta Panigrahi
Saswati Sen
Sharon Lowen
Shobana
Shovana Narayan
Simkie
Sivaji Ganesan
Smitha Rajan
Smriti Biwas
Sobha Naidu
Soundarya
Sreedevi Rajan
Sridevi
Sridhar
Suchitra Harmalkar
Sudha Chandran
Sujata Mohaptra
Swapna Sundari
Tara Chaudhri
Ted Shawn
TR Rajakumari
Uday Shankar
US Krishna Rao
Usha Balaji
Vanaja
Vasanthi
Vazhuvoor Ramaiah Pillai
Vedantam Raghavayya
Vidya Balan
Vineeth
VP Dhananjayan
Vyjayanthimala
Zohra Segal
Past Side Projects/Idea Overflow
Classical Dance in Indian Cinema | Scoop.it
Inclusiveness through Art films in Telugu: A Modern and Post-Modern Study of K.Viswanath’s Films.
7 years ago
Indian Dance, History, and Scholarship | Scoop.it
Pandanallur Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai and Ponniah Pillai with Ram Gopal
8 years ago
Cinema Nritya Gharana | Tumblr
bnandwww: indophilia: 1940’s Indian dancer Jaya Ravana I am...
8 years ago
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Padmini and Vyjayanthimala in Raj Tilak (1958) - Based on photographic still courtesy Osianama.
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